Monitoring system and monitoring method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10864927-B2
Application number	US-201816493371-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 7, 2018
Priority date	Mar 28, 2017
Publication date	Dec 15, 2020
Grant date	Dec 15, 2020

Abstract

Provided is a technology for monitoring train doors which improves the accuracy of detection of trapping in vehicle doors. A server compares the difference between a static image (reference image 91), from each monitoring camera, of a normal state in which there is no trapping in vehicle doors, said static images being held in the server in advance, and a static image (an observation image 92) first acquired in a prescribed acquisition time. If a difference is present, the difference (difference image 94) between the reference image 91 and the observation image 92 acquired in the acquisition time is acquired. A quadrilateral F which covers the four sides of an object constituting the difference is subsequently rendered, the centre point of the quadrilateral is obtained, it is determined that trapping has occurred if movement of a centre coordinate C1, C2, . . . Cn, i.e. the difference between the centre coordinates C, is lower than a prescribed threshold value, and red frame rendering of video is indicated on a monitor.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A monitoring system including a monitoring camera that images a door of a train, a control device that detects trapping by the door based on a video obtained by the monitoring camera, and a monitor that displays the video of the monitoring camera, wherein
when the door has changed from an opened state to a closed state, the control device determines a trapping determination state that trapping by the door has occurred based on a difference image between a reference image captured by the monitoring camera and an observation image captured by the monitoring camera after elapse of a prescribed time since the capturing of the reference image,
the monitor displays, in a highlighted mode, the video of the monitoring camera that captures the door determined as causing the occurring of the trapping and further displays a cancellation button for cancelling the trapping determination state, and
if the cancellation button is pressed, the highlighted mode of the video of the monitoring camera is cancelled.

2. The monitoring system according to claim 1 , wherein the monitoring camera captures a plurality of the observation images after capturing the reference image, and the control device acquires a difference image between the reference image and each observation image, obtains the movement of a central coordinate from central coordinates of the plurality of difference images, and determines that trapping by the door has occurred if it is determined that the central coordinate has not moved.

3. A monitoring method for detecting trapping by a door of a train, based on a video of a monitoring camera that images the door of the train, comprising:
a difference calculation step of calculating a difference between a reference image captured by the monitoring camera and an observation image captured by the monitoring camera after elapse of a prescribed time since the capturing of the reference image, when the door has changed from an opened state to a closed state;
a trapping determination step of obtaining the movement of a central coordinate of the difference, and determining trapping determination state that trapping by the door has occurred if it is determined that the central coordinate has not moved;
an alarm ringing step of starting an alarm ringing if the trapping determination state that the trapping has occurred is determined in the trapping determination step;
a cancelling step of receiving an operation of a cancellation button for cancelling the trapping determination state; and
a stoning step of stooping the alarm ringing.

Assignees

• Hitachi Int Electric Inc

Inventors

• OHKI Kana

Classifications

• H04N23/61

  based on recognised objects · CPC title

• H04N7/186

  Video door telephones · CPC title

• B61L23/041

  Obstacle detection · CPC title

• B61L15/0081 Primary

  On-board diagnosis or maintenance · CPC title

• B61K13/04 Primary

  Passenger-warning devices attached to vehicles; Safety devices for preventing accidents to passengers when entering or leaving vehicles · CPC title