IMAGE PROCESSOR FOR MONITORING

• Main Author: SHINBO KENICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.09.2012
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processor for monitoring, capable of effectively hiding a person by a mask image and sufficiently protecting privacy.SOLUTION: The image processor for monitoring includes: present image storage means for storing a present image which is the present image of a monitoring object area; comparison image storage means for storing a comparison image to be compared with the present image; change area extraction means for comparing the present image and the comparison image and extracting a change area; mask area setting means for binarizing respective luminance values within the change area by a prescribed threshold, and setting an area to be masked within the present image on the basis of a result after the binarization; first mask image preparation means for preparing a first mask image covering the inside the mask area; and superimposing means for preparing a superimposition image for which the first mask image is superimposed in the mask area of the present image.