US6418235B1
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Organism collating method and apparatus
Assignee: Omron Corp
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Filing: 1999-09-07
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Granted: 2002-07-09
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Expires: 2019-09-07
Abstract
Abstract An organism collating device for collating concordance of an organism in dimension with characteristics of the registered organisms includes a storage means for storing attribute data classifying kinds of organisms relating to the characteristics of the organisms, an extraction means for extracting organism characteristics and attribute data from the organism, and a collation means for searching the organism characteristics stored in the storage means based the attribute data executed by the extraction means to collate the searched organism characteristics with the extracted organism characteristics for specifying an organism.
Inventors
- 👤 Masaru Morimoto
- 👤 Ichiro Kubo
- 👤 Hiroshi Yano
- 👤 Sumiaki Adachi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-06 17:34
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06V; G06V40/00; G06V40/10; G06V40/16; G06V40/172
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 20
Claim 1
Independent Claim
125 words
An organism identification device comprising: a storage device which stores respective face data of a plurality of individual organisms in predefined organism classes, the location of an individual organism's face data within a particular class being defined by non-facial attribute data of the individual organism; a camera for taking a picture of an arriving organism and producing arrival organism face data; a device for determining non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism; and a collation device for determining which one of said predefined organism classes the arriving organism's face data belongs to by evaluating the non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism and for comparing the face data of said arriving organism with stored face data within said determined class to identify the arriving organism.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
125 words
An organism identification device comprising: a storage device which stores respective face data of a plurality of individual organisms in predefined organism classes, the location of an individual organism's face data within a particular class being defined by non-facial attribute data of the individual organism; a camera for taking a picture of an arriving organism and producing arrival organism face data; a device for determining non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism; and a collation device for determining which one of said predefined organism classes the arriving organism's face data belongs to by evaluating the non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism and for comparing the face data of said arriving organism with stored face data within said determined class to identify the arriving organism.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
112 words
An organism identifying method comprising: storing respective face data of a plurality of individual organisms in predefined organism classes, the location of an individual organism's respective face data within a particular class being defined by non-facial attribute data of the individual organism; taking a picture of a face of an arriving organism; producing arrival organism face data; determining non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism; determining which one of said predefined organism classes the arriving organism's face data belongs to by evaluating the non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism; and comparing the face data of said arriving organism with stored face data within said determined class to identify the arriving organism.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
112 words
An organism identifying method comprising: storing respective face data of a plurality of individual organisms in predefined organism classes, the location of an individual organism's respective face data within a particular class being defined by non-facial attribute data of the individual organism; taking a picture of a face of an arriving organism; producing arrival organism face data; determining non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism; determining which one of said predefined organism classes the arriving organism's face data belongs to by evaluating the non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism; and comparing the face data of said arriving organism with stored face data within said determined class to identify the arriving organism.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
124 words
An organism identification device comprising: a storage device which stores respective face data of a plurality of individual organisms in predefined organism classes, the location of an individual organism's face data within a particular class being defined by non-facial attribute data of the individual organism; a camera for taking a picture of a face and a body of an arriving organism and producing arrival organism face data and non-facial attribute data; and a collation device for determining which one of said predefined organism classes the arriving organism's face data belongs to by evaluating the non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism and for comparing the face data of said arriving organism with stored face data within said determined class to identify the arriving organism.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
124 words
An organism identification device comprising: a storage device which stores respective face data of a plurality of individual organisms in predefined organism classes, the location of an individual organism's face data within a particular class being defined by non-facial attribute data of the individual organism; a camera for taking a picture of a face and a body of an arriving organism and producing arrival organism face data and non-facial attribute data; and a collation device for determining which one of said predefined organism classes the arriving organism's face data belongs to by evaluating the non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism and for comparing the face data of said arriving organism with stored face data within said determined class to identify the arriving organism.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
111 words
An organism identification method comprising: storing respective face data of a plurality of individual organisms in predefined organism classes, the location of an individual organism's face data within a particular class being defined by non-facial attribute data of the individual organism; taking a picture of a face and a body of an arriving organism and producing arrival organism face data and non-facial attribute data; determining which one of said predefined organism classes the arriving organism's face data belongs to by evaluating said non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism; and comparing the face data of said arriving organism with stored face data within said determined class to identify the arriving organism.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
111 words
An organism identification method comprising: storing respective face data of a plurality of individual organisms in predefined organism classes, the location of an individual organism's face data within a particular class being defined by non-facial attribute data of the individual organism; taking a picture of a face and a body of an arriving organism and producing arrival organism face data and non-facial attribute data; determining which one of said predefined organism classes the arriving organism's face data belongs to by evaluating said non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism; and comparing the face data of said arriving organism with stored face data within said determined class to identify the arriving organism.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
21 words
An organism identification device according to claim 1 in which said attribute data includes a body weight of said arriving organism.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
23 words
An organism identification device according to claim 1 in which said attribute data includes a shape of clothes worn by said arriving organism.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
23 words
An organism identification device according to claim 1 in which said attribute data includes a color of clothes worn by said arriving organism.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
27 words
An organism identification device according to claim 1 in which said attribute data includes an age of said arriving organism, wherein said age is an old age.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
28 words
An organism identification device according to claim 1 in which said attribute data includes an age of said arriving organism, wherein said age is a late middle age.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
27 words
An organism identification device according to claim 1 in which said attribute data includes an age of said arriving organism, wherein said age is a young age.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
27 words
An organism identification device according to claim 1 in which said attribute data includes an age of said arriving organism, wherein said age is a child age.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
32 words
An organism identification device according to claim 1 in which said evaluating the non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism includes considering the frequency with which a particular organism enters an area.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
32 words
An organism identification device according to claim 1 in which said evaluating the non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism includes considering the frequency with which a particular organism exits an area.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
24 words
An organism identification device according to claim 1 , in which said attribute data is set to include a body height of an organism.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
24 words
An organism identification device according to claim 1 , in which said attribute data is set to an organism exiting from a specific area.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
36 words
An organism identifying method according to claim 2 wherein said evaluating the non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism is performed prior to said comparing the face data of said arriving organism with stored face data.
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