SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM
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A device for detecting a suspicious activity, efficiently performing surveillance of a person and vehicle detected by a surveillance camera. The device uses signal generation means, a sensor for receiving a signal from the signal generation means, and image data taken by the camera. The device detects mobile bodies, such as a person and a vehicle, included in an image taken by the camera and uses them as mobile body information, uses as authentication information an ID number represented by a signal received by the sensor, defines permitted activities and prohibited activities according to authorized activities corresponding to authentication information, and issues an alarm when the device detects that an activity represented by mobile body activity information is a illegal or prohibited activity.
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19. A suspicious activity detection apparatus for detecting suspicious activity by using signal generation means, a sensor for receiving a signal from said signal generation means, and image data taken by a camera, comprising:
an image input section, which captures image data from said camera and outputs said image data;
an activity analysis section, which detects a mobile object such as a person and a vehicle included in an image indicated by image data from said image input section, recognizes if the detected mobile object is a person, a vehicle, or something other than these, acquires the position of the detected object, and further extracts a motion trajectory of the detected object to output the thus obtained information as mobile-object activity information;
an authentication information input section, which acquires an ID number indicated in said signal received by said sensor, a reception time and a reception position of said signal by means of the output of said sensor, and outputs the thus obtained information as authentication information;
an authorization authentication section, which stores authorization level corresponding to said authentication information, obtains authorization level corresponding to the inputted authentication information from said authentication information input section and outputs said inputted authentication information with said obtained authorization level added thereto;
an information integration section, which brings authentication information added with authorization level inputted from said authorization authentication section into correspondence with mobile-object activity information inputted from said activity analysis section, and outputs the mobile-object activity information with the authorization level added thereto;
an activity determination section, which includes a list of a permitted activities and prohibited activities depending on the authorization level, recognizes a predetermined violating activity and a prohibited activity by referring to said list, with respect to the authorization level added to the mobile-object activity information inputted from said information integration section, and with detection of the activity indicated by the mobile-object activity information being an illegal activity or a prohibited activity or based on a result obtained by comparing a total sum of the products of the detected number of persons for each authorization level and the authorization level with a value determined by multiplying the number of persons having the lowest authorization level by a constant, generates and outputs alarm information; and
an output section, which outputs an alarm when inputted with alarm information from said activity determination section.- View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 27, 28)
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23. A suspicious activity detection apparatus for detecting a suspicious activity by using signal generation means, a sensor for receiving a signal from said signal generation means, and image data taken by a camera, comprising:
- an image input section, which captures image data from said camera and outputs said image data;
an activity analysis section, which detects a mobile object such as a person and a vehicle included in an image indicated by image data from said image input section, recognizes if the detected mobile object is a person, a vehicle, or something other than these, acquires the position of the detected object, and further extracts a motion trajectory of the detected object to output the thus obtained information as mobile-object activity information;
an authentication information input section, which acquires an ID number indicated in said signal received by said sensor, acquires a reception time and a reception position of said signal by means of the output of said sensor, and outputs the thus obtained information as authentication information;
an authorization authentication section, which stores authorization information corresponding to said authentication information as well as a template of a uniform or clothes;
obtains a partial image of a person by referring to the position of the person from mobile-object activity information from said activity analysis section;
compares said partial image with the uniform or clothes stored in said template; and
when there is a uniform or clothes whose similarity is higher than a predetermined threshold, obtains authentication information inputted from said authentication information input section with information about the uniform or clothes being the authentication information, or obtains authorization information corresponding to recognition information which is information about the uniform and clothes, to output the inputted authentication information with said authorization information being added thereto;
an information integration section, which brings authentication information added with authorization information inputted from said authorization authentication section into correspondence with mobile-object activity information inputted from said activity analysis section, and outputs the mobile-object activity information with the authorization information added thereto;an activity determination section, which includes a list of permitted activities and prohibited activities depending on authorization, recognizes a predetermined violating activity and a prohibited activity by referring to said list, with respect to the authorization added to the mobile-object activity information inputted from said information integration section, and when detecting that the activity indicated by the mobile-object activity information is an illegal activity or a prohibited activity, generates and outputs alarm information; and
an output section, which outputs an alarm when inputted with alarm information from said activity determination section. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
- an image input section, which captures image data from said camera and outputs said image data;
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29. A suspicious activity detection method performed in a suspicious activity detection apparatus comprising an image input section, an activity analysis section, an authentication information input section, an authorization authentication section, an information integration section, an activity determination section, and an output section, said suspicious activity detection apparatus detecting a suspicious activity by using signal generation means, a sensor for receiving a signal from said signal generation means, and image data taken by a camera, wherein said image input section captures image data from said camera and outputs said image data;
- said activity analysis section detects a mobile object such as a person and a vehicle included in an image indicated by image data from said image input section, recognizes if the detected mobile object is a person, a vehicle, or something other than these, acquires the position of the detected object, and further extracts a motion trajectory of the detected object to output the thus obtained information as mobile-object activity information;
said authentication information input section acquires an ID number indicated in said signal received by said sensor, a reception time and a reception position of said signal by means of the output of said sensor, and outputs the thus obtained information as authentication information;
said authorization authentication section stores authorization information corresponding to said authentication information, obtains authorization information corresponding to the inputted authentication information from said authentication information input section and outputs the inputted authentication information with said obtained authorization information added thereto;
said information integration section brings authentication information added with authorization information inputted from said authorization authentication section into correspondence with mobile-object activity information inputted from said activity analysis section, and outputs the mobile-object activity information with the authorization information added thereto;
said activity determination section includes a list of a permitted activities and prohibited activities depending on authorization, recognizes a predetermined violating activity or prohibited activity by referring to said list, with respect to the authorization added to the mobile-object activity information inputted from said information integration section, and when detecting that the activity indicated by the mobile-object activity information is an illegal activity or a prohibited activity, generates and outputs alarm information; and
said output section outputs an alarm when inputted with alarm information from said activity determination section. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 38, 39, 40)
- said activity analysis section detects a mobile object such as a person and a vehicle included in an image indicated by image data from said image input section, recognizes if the detected mobile object is a person, a vehicle, or something other than these, acquires the position of the detected object, and further extracts a motion trajectory of the detected object to output the thus obtained information as mobile-object activity information;
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33. A suspicious activity detection method performed in a suspicious activity detection apparatus comprising an image input section, an activity analysis section, an authentication information input section, an authorization authentication section, an information integration section, an activity determination section, and an output section, said suspicious activity detecting apparatus detecting a suspicious activity by using signal generation means, a sensor for receiving a signal from said signal generation means, and image data taken by a camera, wherein said image input section captures image data from said camera and outputs said image data;
- said activity analysis section detects a mobile object such as a person and a vehicle included in an image indicated by image data from said image input section, recognizes if the detected mobile object is a person, a vehicle, or something other than these, acquires the position of the detected object, and further extracts a motion trajectory of the detected object to output the thus obtained information as mobile-object activity information;
said authentication information input section acquires an ID number indicated in said signal received by said sensor, acquires a reception time and a reception position of said signal by means of the output of said sensor, and outputs the thus obtained information as authentication information;
said authorization authentication section stores authorization information corresponding to said authentication information as well as a template of a uniform or clothes;
obtains a partial image of a person by referring to the position of the person from mobile-object activity information from said activity analysis section;
compares said partial image with the uniform or clothes stored in said template; and
when there is a uniform or clothes whose similarity is higher than a predetermined threshold, obtains authentication information inputted from said authentication information input section with information about the uniform or clothes being the authentication information, or obtains authorization information corresponding to recognition information which is information about the uniform and clothes, to output the inputted authentication information with said authorization information being added thereto;
said information integration section brings authentication information added with authorization information inputted from said authorization authentication section into correspondence with mobile-object activity information inputted from said activity analysis section, and outputs the mobile-object activity information with the authorization information being added thereto;
said activity determination section includes a list of permitted activities and prohibited activities depending on authorization, recognizes a predetermined violating activity or prohibited activity by referring to said list, with respect to the authorization added to the mobile-object activity information inputted from said information integration section, and when detecting that the activity indicated by the mobile-object activity information is an illegal activity or a prohibited activity, generates and outputs alarm information;
said output section outputs an alarm when inputted with alarm information from said activity determination section. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37)
- said activity analysis section detects a mobile object such as a person and a vehicle included in an image indicated by image data from said image input section, recognizes if the detected mobile object is a person, a vehicle, or something other than these, acquires the position of the detected object, and further extracts a motion trajectory of the detected object to output the thus obtained information as mobile-object activity information;
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