ATTENTION POSITION ESTIMATING METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, ATTENTION CONTENT DISPLAY METHOD, ATTENTION POSITION ESTIMATING DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE

• Main Authors: KOMATSU YUTO, YUYAMA SHIGEO, YOSHINAGA TOMOAKI, NAKAMURA KATSUYUKI, KIDA KIYOKA, HOSHINO TAKASHI, MINEMOTO TAKERU, MASUKO MIKA, HONDA AKIRA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 02.02.2012
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an attention position estimating device measuring positions to which persons pay attention for unspecified large number of persons whose information cannot be registered in advance, by measuring face/gaze directions of the persons with high accuracy.SOLUTION: The attention position estimating device estimates attribute information of faces such as age and sex by performing image recognition processing on acquired face images, and selects/modifies models for face direction measurement according to the estimated attribute information. By measuring face directions with the models, the attention position estimating device measures the face/gaze directions while suppressing influence of an individual difference of each person, and measures attention positions.