INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20140064570A1
• Filed: 08/16/2013
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Miyakoshi, Hidehiko
• Application Number:
  US13/968,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20140064570A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/110
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/143 Sensing or illuminating at different wavelengths
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/68 Food, e.g. fruit or vegetables
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0054 with control of supplementary check-parameters, e.g. weight or number of articles

Abstract

In accordance with one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an area specification module configured to specify a sufficiency area meeting a specified temperature condition from a thermography representing the temperature distribution in an image capturing area, an extraction module configured to extract feature amount from a specified area in a captured image of the image capturing area based on the sufficiency area specified by the area specification module and an object recognition module configured to recognize an object contained in the captured image using the feature amount extracted by the extraction module.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

an area specification module configured to specify a sufficiency area meeting a specified temperature condition from a thermography representing the temperature distribution in an image capturing area;

an extraction module configured to extract feature amount from a specified area in a captured image of the image capturing area based on the sufficiency area specified by the area specification module; and

an object recognition module configured to recognize an object contained in the captured image module the feature amount extracted by the extraction module.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the area specification unit specifies an area of which at least one of a shape or an arrangement position of an area meeting the temperature condition meets a specified condition as a sufficiency area.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the area specification unit specifies the sufficiency area as an elimination area eliminated from an object subjected to feature amount extraction;

the extraction unit extracts the feature amount from an area in which the elimination area is eliminated in the captured image.

4. The information processing apparatus according to any one of claim 1, wherein

the area specification unit specifies the sufficiency area as a determination area subjected to feature amount extraction.

the extraction unit extracts the feature amount from the determination area in the captured image.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the area specification unit specifies the determination area accompanying the elimination area specified from the thermography.

6. An information processing method, comprising:

specifying a sufficiency area meeting a specified temperature condition from a thermography representing the temperature distribution in an image capturing area;

extracting feature amount from a specified area in a captured image of the image capturing area based on the sufficiency area specified; and

recognizing an object contained in the captured image using the feature amount extracted.

7. The information processing method according to claim 6, wherein

specifying an area of which at least one of a shape or an arrangement position of an area meeting the temperature condition meets a specified condition as a sufficiency area.

8. The information processing method according to claim 6, wherein

specifying the sufficiency area as an elimination area eliminated from an object subjected to feature amount extraction;

extracting the feature amount from an area in which the elimination area is eliminated in the captured image.

9. The information processing method according to any one of claim 6, wherein

specifying the sufficiency area as a determination area subjected to feature amount extraction.

extracting the feature amount from the determination area in the captured image.

10. The information processing method according to claim 9, wherein

specifying the determination area accompanying the elimination area specified from the thermography.