Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11494579-B2
Application number	US-201716073457-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 23, 2017
Priority date	Jan 29, 2016
Publication date	Nov 8, 2022
Grant date	Nov 8, 2022

Abstract

An information processing apparatus ( 10 ) includes a time and space information acquisition unit ( 110 ) that acquires high-risk time and space information indicating a spatial region with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed and a corresponding time slot, a possible surveillance target acquisition unit ( 120 ) that identifies a video to be analyzed from among a plurality of videos generated by capturing an image of each of a plurality of places, on the basis of the high-risk time and space information, and analyzes the identified video to acquire information of a possible surveillance target, and a target time and space identification unit ( 130 ) that identifies at least one of a spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted which is at least a portion of the spatial region or a time slot when surveillance is to be conducted, from among the spatial region and the time slot indicated by the high-risk time and space information, on the basis of the information of the possible surveillance target.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a memory storing instructions; and
a processor configured to execute the instructions to:
acquire high-risk time and space information generated in advance and indicating a spatial region with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed and at least one of a corresponding time slot and a corresponding date;
identify a video to be analyzed from among a plurality of videos generated by capturing an image of each of a plurality of places, on the basis of the high-risk time and space information, and analyze the identified video to acquire information of a possible surveillance target, the possible surveillance target being a person who has caused a crime or an accident before or a vehicle possessed by the person; and
identify, from among the spatial region and the time slot indicated by the high-risk time and space information, at least one of a spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted which is at least a portion of the spatial region or a time slot when surveillance is to be conducted, on the basis of the information of the possible surveillance target.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , the processor is further configured to:
acquire information of a possible victim of an accident or a crime; and
adjusts at least one of the spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted or the time slot when surveillance is to be conducted using the information of the possible victim.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 ,
the processor is further configured to select the possible victim on the basis of information of an accident or a crime pertaining to the information of the possible surveillance target.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , the processor is further configured to:
acquire environmental information of a region included in the identified video, on the basis of the identified video or information for identifying a place of the video; and
adjust at least one of the spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted or the time slot when surveillance is to be conducted using the environmental information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , the processor is further configured to:
accept an input of a result of surveillance according to at least one of the spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted or the time slot when surveillance is to be conducted; and
store the input result in a database.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the processor is further configured to adjust at least one of the spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted or the time slot when surveillance is to be conducted using the databased result.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 ,
the processor is further configured to:
acquire the databased result as feedback information; and
use the acquired feedback information in a process of predicting a spatial region and a time slot with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed, to acquire the high-risk time and space information.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
the processor is further configured to:
recognize a person within a range of the identified video
collate the recognized person with an existing person under surveillance in a storage device that registers information of the person under surveillance, and
identifies identify a corresponding person in the storage device as the possible surveillance target.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein in a case where as a result of analyzing the identified video a person estimated to be identical is detected in a place of a predetermined range a predetermined number of times or more or for a predetermined length of time or more, the processor is further configured to identify the person as the possible surveillance target.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein in a case where as a result of analyzing the identified video a two-wheeled or three-wheeled vehicle with two people thereon which is estimated to be identical is detected in a place of a predetermined range a predetermined number of times or more or for a predetermined length of time or more, the processor is further configured to identify the two-wheeled or three-wheeled vehicle as the possible surveillance target.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
the processor is further configured to:
recognize a vehicle within a range of the identified video,
identify a possessor of the recognized vehicle by reference to a storage unit that registers information including a possessor of each vehicle;
collate the identified possessor with an existing person under surveillance in a storage unit that registers information of the person under surveillance; and
identify a corresponding person in the storage unit as the possible surveillance target.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
the processor is further configured to:
recognize a vehicle within a range of the identified video;
collate the recognized vehicle with a vehicle possessed by a person who has caused a traffic accident or a person who has violated traffic rules before in a storage unit that registers information of the vehicle; and
identify a corresponding vehicle in the storage unit as the possible surveillance target.

13. An information processing method executed by a computer, the method comprising:
acquiring high-risk time and space information generated in advance and indicating a spatial region with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed and at least one of a corresponding time slot and a corresponding date;
identifying a video to be analyzed from among a plurality of videos generated by capturing an image of each of a plurality of places, on the basis of the high-risk time and space information, and analyze the identified video to acquire information of a possible surveillance target, the possible surveillance target being a person who has caused a crime or an accident before or a vehicle possessed by the person; and
identifying, from among the spatial region and the time slot indicated by the high-risk time and space information, at least one of a spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted which is at least a portion of the spatial region or a time slot when surveillance is to be conducted, on the basis of the information of the possible surveillance target.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to as execute a method, the method comprising:
acquiring high-risk time and space information generated in advance and indicating a spatial region with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed and at least one of a corresponding time slot and a corresponding date;
identifying a video to be analyzed from among a plurality of videos generated by capturing an image of each of a plurality of places, on the basis of the high-risk time and space information, and analyze the identified video to acquire information of a possible surveillance target, the possible surveillance target being a person who has caused a crime or an accident before or a vehicle possessed by the person; and
identifying, from among the spatial region and the time slot indicated by the high-risk time and space information,

Assignees

• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Nakagawa Junko
• Oami Ryoma
• IDA Kenichiro
• Saito Mika
• NAGAHAMA Shohzoh
• Furukawa Akinari
• Ohtsuka Yasumasa
• Fukuda Junichi
• Ikeda Fumi
• Moriyama Manabu
• Einaga Fumie
• Yamagami Tatsunori
• Hirayama Keisuke
• KUMANO Yoshitsugu
• Adachi Hiroki

Classifications

• G06V20/52 Primary

  Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects (recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69) · CPC title

• G06V2201/08

  Detecting or categorising vehicles · CPC title

• G06Q50/26

  Government or public services (business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40) · CPC title

• G06F16/22

  Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures · CPC title

• H04N7/18

  Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast · CPC title