Monitoring system, image capturing apparatus, analysis apparatus, and monitoring method

摘要

Monitoring system is provided which includes an image capturing apparatus including a basic analysis section that performs analysis processing based on image data input from an image capturing section that captures an image of a subject and generates first metadata, and a first metadata output section that outputs the first metadata and second metadata different from the first metadata to a monitoring apparatus connected to a network via the network, and an analysis apparatus including an extended analysis section that performs analysis processing different from that of the basic analysis section based on the image data received from the image capturing apparatus and generates the second metadata, and a second metadata output section that outputs the second metadata to the image capturing apparatus.

主权项

1. A monitoring system comprising:
a plurality of image capturing apparatuses, each image capturing apparatus including
an image capturing circuit that captures an image illustrating a head and a face of a person,an analysis circuit that analyzes the image captured by the image capturing circuit and generates first metadata, the first metadata including a circumscribed rectangle according to moving object detection processing on the image, anda first metadata output circuit that outputs the first metadata and second metadata to a monitoring apparatus via a network, the second metadata being different from the first metadata; and an analysis apparatus including
a plurality of extended analysis circuits that each analyzes an image captured by a different one of the image capturing apparatuses to generate the corresponding second metadata that specifies a head orientation of the head and positions of facial features of the face in at least one of the circumscribed rectangle and the analyzed image, the head orientation being information of a roll, a pitch or a yaw of the head within the analyzed image,a metadata combining circuit that generates combined metadata by combining the second metadata generated by a first extended analysis circuit for a first image capturing apparatus of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses and the second metadata generated by a second extended analysis circuit for a second image capturing apparatus of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses, anda second metadata output circuit that outputs the second metadata to each of the image capturing apparatuses and outputs the combined metadata to the one of the image capturing apparatuses.