INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Author: KUROKI TAKESHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 13.04.2015
• 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 a technique for automatically determining information on an event occurring in a scene being photographed, and allowing an interested person to use the information.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus comprises: follow-up means which follows up a person included in a captured image; recognition means which recognizes the behavior of the person followed up by the follow-up means, on the basis of person follow-up information on the person and behavior information stored in advance; and determination means which determines an event caused by the behavior, on the basis of recognition information relating to the behavior recognized by the recognition means. 【課題】撮影中のシーンにおいて起こるイベントの情報を自動で判定して関係者に利用可能とするための技術を提供する。【解決手段】撮影された映像中に写る人物を追跡する追跡手段と、前記追跡手段で追跡された人物の人物追跡情報と、予め記憶されている行動情報とに基づいて、前記人物の行動を認識する認識手段と、前記認識手段で認識された前記行動に係る認識情報に基づいて、前記行動により生じたイベントを判定する判定手段と、を有することによって課題を解決する。【選択図】図５