IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20170132473A1
• Filed: 08/25/2016
• Published: 05/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: OKADA, Yasutaka, MURASHITA, Kimitaka
• Granted Patent: US 9,904,854 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69

Abstract

A computer determines a type of change in a state of a bed on the basis of a correspondence relationship between a boundary that indicates a first bed area in a first image and a line segment represented by an edge detected from a second image. The second image is an image that is captured after the first image is captured, and the change in the state of the bed is a state change that occurs during a time period from the capturing of the first image to the capturing of the second image.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein an image processing program causing a computer to execute a process comprising

determining a type of change in a state of a bed during a time period from capturing of a first image to capturing of a second image after the capturing of the first image, on the basis of a correspondence relationship between a boundary that indicates a first bed area in the first image and a line segment represented by an edge detected from the second image.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein

the determining the type of change in the state obtains a combination of moving boundary areas from among a plurality of boundary areas corresponding to a plurality of boundaries that indicate a second bed area in a third image captured during the time period, so as to determine the type of change in the state on the basis of the combination of boundary areas and the correspondence relationship.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2, wherein

the determining the type of change in the state changes a position and a length of the line segment by changing an estimated surface height of the bed in the second image, and compares the boundary that indicates the first bed area with the line segment after change, so as to determine the type of change in the state on the basis of a result of a comparison.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 3, wherein

when the combination of the moving boundary areas represents the plurality of boundary areas and when the boundary that indicates the first bed area corresponds to the line segment after the change by setting the estimated surface height to a value in a range in which a surface height is changeable, the determining the type of change in the state determines that the type of change in the state is a change in a surface height of the bed.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 4, wherein the process further comprises:

estimating a bed area in the second image when the type of change in the state is the change in the surface height; and

outputting information about the estimated bed area.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 3, wherein

when the combination of boundary areas represents the plurality of boundary areas and when the boundary that indicates the first bed area does not correspond to the line segment even after setting the estimated surface height to any value in a range in which a surface height is changeable, the determining the type of change in the state determines that the type of change in the state is a horizontal movement of the bed.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 6, wherein

the process further comprises outputting information about a bed area estimated from the second image by use of the estimated surface height of the bed in the first image when the type of change in the state is the horizontal movement.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2, wherein

when the combination of boundary areas represents a combination of some of the plurality of boundary areas and when the boundary that indicates the first bed area corresponds to the line segment, the determining the type of change in the state determines that the type of change in the state is a reclining shape change of the bed.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 8, wherein

the process further comprises outputting information about the first bed area as information about a bed area in the second image when the type of change in the state is the reclining shape change.

10. An image processing device comprising:

a processor configured to determine a type of change in a state of a bed during a time period from capturing of a first image to capturing of a second image after the capturing of the first image, on the basis of a correspondence relationship between a boundary that indicates a first bed area in the first image and a line segment represented by an edge detected from the second image; and

an output interface configured to output information based on the type of change in the state.

11. The image processing device according to claim 10, wherein

the processor obtains a combination of moving boundary areas from among a plurality of boundary areas corresponding to a plurality of boundaries that indicate a second bed area in a third image captured during the time period, so as to determine the type of change in the state on the basis of the combination of boundary areas and the correspondence relationship.

12. The image processing device according to claim 11, wherein

the processor changes a position and a length of the line segment by changing an estimated surface height of the bed in the second image, and compares the boundary that indicates the first bed area with the line segment after change, so as to determine the type of change in the state on the basis of a result of a comparison.

13. An image processing method comprising

determining, by a processor, a type of change in a state of a bed during a time period from capturing of a first image to capturing of a second image after the capturing of the first image, on the basis of a correspondence relationship between a boundary that indicates a first bed area in the first image and a line segment represented by an edge detected from the second image.

14. The image processing method according to claim 13, wherein

the determining the type of change in the state obtains a combination of moving boundary areas from among a plurality of boundary areas corresponding to a plurality of boundaries that indicate a second bed area in a third image captured during the time period, so as to determine the type of change in the state on the basis of the combination of boundary areas and the correspondence relationship.

15. The image processing method according to claim 14, wherein

the determining the type of change in the state changes a position and a length of the line segment by changing an estimated surface height of the bed in the second image, and compares the boundary that indicates the first bed area with the line segment after change, so as to determine the type of change in the state on the basis of a result of a comparison.