FLOW LINE PRODUCTION SYSTEM, FLOW LINE PRODUCTION DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW LINE DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20110199461A1
• Filed: 09/01/2009
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Morioka, Mikio, Kanehara, Toshiki, Sugiura, Masataka, Horio, Kazuyuki, Nakano, Go
• Application Number:
  US13/123,788
• Publication Number:
  US 20110199461A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/46
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/86 Combinations of radar systems with non-radar systems, e.g. sonar, direction finder
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/867 Combination of radar systems with cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30196 Human being; Person
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30232 Surveillance
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30241 Trajectory
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/20 Analysis of motion motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51

Abstract

A motion locus creation system which is capable of displaying the trajectory of movement of an object to be tracked in an understandable way even if using no 3D model information. A camera unit forms a detection flag indicating whether or not the object to be tracked has been able to be detected from a captured image. A motion locus-type selection section determines the display type of a motion locus according to the detection flag. A motion locus creation section produces a motion locus according to coordinate data acquired by a tag reader section and a motion locus-type instruction signal selected by the motion locus-type selection section.

Claims

1-32. -32. (canceled)

33. A motion locus creation system comprising:

an imaging section that obtains a captured image of an area including an object to be tracked;

a positioning section that positions said object to be tracked and outputs positioning data of said object to be tracked;

a motion locus type selection section that selects a display type of a motion locus corresponding to each point in time according to whether or not said object to be tracked is shown in said captured image of said each point in time;

a motion locus creation section that forms motion locus data based on said positioning data and a motion locus display type selected by said motion locus type selection section; and

a display section that displays an image based on said captured image and a motion locus based on said motion locus data in an overlapping manner.

34. The motion locus creation system according to claim 33, wherein said positioning section obtains said positioning data based on a radio signal received from a wireless tag attached to said object to be tracked.

35. The motion locus creation system according to claim 33, wherein:

said imaging section has an image capturing section that obtains a captured image, and an image tracking section that obtains tracking status data indicating whether or not said object to be tracked is shown in a captured image of said each point in time; and

said motion locus type selection section selects a display type of a motion locus based on said tracking status data.

36. The motion locus creation system according to claim 33, wherein:

said imaging section has an image capturing section that obtains a captured image, and an imaging coordinate acquisition section that obtains imaging coordinate data of said object to be tracked in a captured image of said each point in time; and

said motion locus type selection section selects a display type of a motion locus based on presence or absence of said imaging coordinate data in a captured image of said each point in time.

37. The motion locus creation system according to claim 33, wherein said motion locus type selection section selects a solid line when said object to be tracked is shown in said captured image, and selects a dotted line when said object to be tracked is not shown in said captured image.

38. The motion locus creation system according to claim 33, wherein said motion locus type selection section determines that said object to be tracked is not shown in said captured image only when captured images in which said object to be tracked is not shown continue for at least threshold value th (where th≧

2).

39. The motion locus creation system according to claim 33, wherein said motion locus type selection section determines that said object to be tracked is not shown in said captured image only when a ratio of a number of captured images in which said object to be tracked is not shown, to a total number of a temporally consecutive plurality of captured images, is greater than or equal to a threshold value.

40. A motion locus creation apparatus comprising:

a motion locus type selection section that selects a display type of a motion locus corresponding to each point in time according to whether or not an object to be tracked is shown in a captured image of said each point in time; and

a motion locus creation section that forms motion locus data based on positioning data of said object to be tracked and a motion locus display type selected by said motion locus type selection section.

41. The motion locus creation apparatus according to claim 40, wherein said motion locus type selection section selects a solid line when said object to be tracked is shown in said captured image, and selects a dotted line when said object to be tracked is not shown in said captured image.

42. The motion locus creation apparatus according to claim 40, wherein said motion locus type selection section determines that said object to be tracked is not shown in said captured image only when captured images in which said object to be tracked is not shown continue for at least threshold value th (where th≧

2).

43. The motion locus creation apparatus according to claim 40, wherein said motion locus type selection section determines that said object to be tracked is not shown in said captured image only when a ratio of a number of captured images in which said object to be tracked is not shown, to a total number of temporally consecutive plurality of captured images, is greater than or equal to a threshold value.

44. A motion locus creation method comprising:

a step of forming a motion locus that is a path of movement of an object to be tracked utilizing positioning data of said object to be tracked of each point in time; and

a step of selecting a type of said motion locus on a segment-by-segment basis according to whether or not said object to be tracked is shown in a captured image of said each point in time.