Method and device for detecting falls by image analysis
First Claim
1. Method of detecting a fall of a person by analysis of a stream of video images originating from an image capture device, comprising:
- acquisition of successive images of a determined scene;
selection of at least one point of the scene in said images;
determination of the movement of each point selected by analysis of the displacement of said point in the successive images in the form of a temporal succession of vectors oriented proportionally to the instantaneous velocity of the movement of said point;
computation of the instantaneous acceleration of each point associated with each vector representing the instantaneous velocity;
detection of a fall when the determined instantaneous velocity is above a predefined threshold velocity, the instantaneous acceleration is above a predefined threshold acceleration, and the orientation of the instantaneous velocity vector is included in a predefined directional sector.
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Abstract
A method for detecting a fall of a person by analysis of a stream of video images originating from an image capture device, including: acquisition of successive images of a determined scene; selection of at least one point of the scene in the images; determination of the movement of each point selected by analysis of the displacement of the point in the successive images in the form of a temporal succession of vectors oriented proportionally to the instantaneous velocity of the movement of the point; computation of the instantaneous acceleration of each point associated with each vector representing the instantaneous velocity; detection of a fall when the determined instantaneous velocity is above a predefined threshold velocity and the instantaneous acceleration is above a predefined threshold acceleration.
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10 Claims
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1. Method of detecting a fall of a person by analysis of a stream of video images originating from an image capture device, comprising:
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acquisition of successive images of a determined scene; selection of at least one point of the scene in said images; determination of the movement of each point selected by analysis of the displacement of said point in the successive images in the form of a temporal succession of vectors oriented proportionally to the instantaneous velocity of the movement of said point; computation of the instantaneous acceleration of each point associated with each vector representing the instantaneous velocity; detection of a fall when the determined instantaneous velocity is above a predefined threshold velocity, the instantaneous acceleration is above a predefined threshold acceleration, and the orientation of the instantaneous velocity vector is included in a predefined directional sector. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. System for detecting the fall of a person by analysis of a stream of video images, comprising:
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a device for acquiring successive images of a determined scene; a means for selecting at least one point of the scene in said images; a computer of the movement of each point selected by analysis of the displacement of said point in the successive images in the form of a temporal succession of vectors oriented proportionally to the instantaneous velocity of the movement of said point; a computer of the instantaneous acceleration of each point associated with each vector representing the instantaneous velocity; a means for detecting a fall when the determined instantaneous velocity is above a predefined threshold velocity and the instantaneous acceleration is above a predefined threshold acceleration, and the orientation of the instantaneous velocity vector is included in a predefined directional sector.
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