MONITORING METHOD AND MONITORING APPARATUS

摘要

A monitoring apparatus acquires a first piece of information indicating a detection result of whether or not an item placed in an item placement area has been moved, and a second piece of information indicating a detection result of a direction of a person located around the item placement area and determines whether or not to output warning information, based on the first piece of information and the second piece of information. It is possible to accurately monitor occurrence of a special situation such as shoplifting which is different from a normal case where a person takes an item in hand with the purpose of purchasing the same.

主权项

1. A monitoring method comprising:
acquiring, by an information processing apparatus, a first piece of information indicating a detection result of whether or not an item placed in an item placement area has been moved, and a second piece of information indicating a detection result of a direction of a person located around the item placement area; and determining, by the information processing apparatus, whether or not to output warning information, based on the first piece of information and the second piece of information.