JP5354697B2 - Congestion status management system, congestion status management device, congestion status management method, program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manage the congestion condition in a shop without requiring a high-level image recognition technique. <P>SOLUTION: A congestion condition management system of the present invention for use in managing a congestion condition in a shop includes: markers disposed on a floor of the shop; a photography part for photographing the floor of the shop; and a calculation part for counting the number of markers recognized in an image portion of the floor within the image photographed by the photography part to calculate a degree of congestion in the shop using the number of counted markers. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&amp;INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for managing a congestion situation in a store.

  Convenience stores and supermarkets are crowded with many customers coming to the store, and the passageways and sales floors in the store are very crowded.

  Recently, a technique for managing the congestion situation in a store has been proposed.

  For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for photographing the inside of a store, acquiring human body data from the captured image, and calculating the number of customers based on the number of acquired human body data.

JP 2004-066569 A

  However, the technique disclosed in Patent Document 1 has a problem that an advanced image recognition technique for recognizing which image portion is human body data among images taken in a store is required.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a congestion situation management system, a congestion situation management apparatus, a congestion situation management method, and a program capable of managing the congestion situation in a store without requiring an advanced image recognition technique. There is.

The congestion status management system of the present invention is
A congestion status management system for managing the congestion status in a store,
A mark placed on the floor in the store;
A photographing unit for photographing the floor in the store;
A calculation unit that counts the number of landmarks recognized in the image portion of the floor in the image photographed by the photographing unit, and calculates the degree of congestion in the store using the counted number of landmarks.

The congestion status management device of the present invention,
A congestion status management device for managing the congestion status in a store,
An acquisition unit that acquires an image of a floor in which the landmarks are arranged in the store;
A calculation unit that counts the number of landmarks recognized in the image portion of the floor in the image acquired by the acquisition unit and calculates the degree of congestion in the store using the counted number of landmarks.

The congestion status management method of the present invention includes:
A congestion status management method performed by a congestion status management device that manages the congestion status in a store,
An acquisition step of acquiring an image of a floor in which the landmarks are arranged in the store;
A calculation step of counting the number of landmarks recognized in the image portion of the floor in the acquired image and calculating the degree of congestion in the store using the counted number of landmarks.

The program of the present invention
In the congestion status management device that manages the congestion status in the store,
In the store, a procedure for obtaining an image of a floor on which a landmark is arranged;
A procedure of counting the number of landmarks recognized in the image portion of the floor in the acquired image and calculating the degree of congestion in the store using the counted number of landmarks.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to manage an in-store congestion situation without requiring an advanced image recognition technology.

It is a figure which shows the structural example of the congestion condition management system of one Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the POS terminal shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of the congestion data memorize | stored in the memory | storage part shown in FIG.

  EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Below, the form for implementing this invention is demonstrated with reference to drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows the configuration of the congestion status management system of this embodiment. FIG. 1 shows a state of a store such as a convenience store or a supermarket.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the congestion status management system of this embodiment includes a mark 10, a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) camera 20 as a photographing unit, and a POS (Point of sale) terminal 30 as a congestion status management device. ,have.

  In FIG. 1, a range surrounded by a dotted line indicates a sales floor range of each sales floor in the store. For example, A in the figure is a sales floor range of a magazine. Moreover, it becomes a passage except the sales area enclosed by the dotted line.

  The mark 10 is previously arranged on the floor in the store.

  The CCD camera 20 is installed in a fixed position at a position where the entire store, in particular, the entire floor on which the mark 10 is placed can be photographed.

  Here, the number of the marks 10 recognized through the CCD camera 20 changes according to the number of customers staying in the store.

  Therefore, in the present embodiment, the POS terminal 30 calculates the degree of congestion in the store according to the number of landmarks 10 recognized through the CCD camera 20.

  FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the POS terminal 30.

  The POS terminal 30 includes an acquisition unit 31, a calculation unit 32, and a storage unit 33.

  The acquisition unit 31 is connected to the CCD camera 20 and acquires an image captured by the CCD camera 20.

  The calculating unit 32 counts the number of landmarks 10 recognized in the image portion of the floor in the image acquired by the acquiring unit 31, and calculates the degree of congestion in the store using the counted number of landmarks 10.

  Here, the storage unit 33 recognizes which part of the image acquired by the acquisition unit 31 is the image part of the floor of each sales floor (for example, the image part of the floor of each sales floor in the image Information indicated by the middle position) is stored in advance.

  Thereby, the calculation part 32 counts the number of the mark 10 recognized in the image part of the floor of the sales floor for every sales floor in a store, and calculates the congestion degree of the sales floor using the number of the counted mark 10 can do.

  Moreover, the memory | storage part 33 has memorize | stored beforehand the total number of the mark 10 of the whole store, and the total number of the mark 10 for every sales floor in a store.

  Thereby, the calculation part 32 can calculate the congestion rate for the whole store or every sales floor by the following calculation formulas as the degree of congestion in the store.

{1- (Number of recognized landmarks 10) / (Total number of landmarks 10)} × 100 [%]
The calculating unit 32 stores data on the degree of congestion in the store in the storage unit 33.

  Hereinafter, the calculation operation of the degree of congestion in the store in the congestion status management system of the present embodiment will be described. Here, the congestion rate for each sales floor in the store is calculated every predetermined time.

  In the POS terminal 30, the acquisition unit 31 acquires an image captured by the CCD camera 20 every predetermined time (here, every hour).

  Next, the calculation unit 32 refers to the position information stored in the storage unit 33 and confirms the image portion of the floor of each sales floor in the image acquired by the acquisition unit 31.

  Then, the calculation unit 32 counts the number of the landmarks 10 recognized in the image portion of the floor of the sales floor for each sales floor, and the number of the landmarks 10 counted and the sales floor mark 10 stored in the storage unit 33. The congestion rate of the sales floor is calculated using the total number.

  Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 3, the calculation unit 32 associates with the time data, for each sales floor, the total number of landmarks 10 of the sales floor, the number of landmarks 10 recognized at the sales floor, the congestion rate of the sales floor Is stored in the storage unit 33 as congestion data.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the mark 10 is arranged on the floor in the store in advance, the floor in the store is photographed by the CCD camera 20, and the mark 10 recognized in the image portion of the floor in the photographed image. And the degree of congestion in the store is calculated using the counted number of landmarks 10.

  Here, since the mark 10 has a simple shape like the “+” mark shown in FIG. 1, in order to recognize the mark 10, an advanced image recognition technique for recognizing human body data of Patent Document 1. Is not necessary.

  Therefore, it is possible to manage the congestion situation in the store without requiring an advanced image recognition technique.

  Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. Various changes that can be understood by those skilled in the art can be made to the configuration and details of the present invention within the scope of the present invention.

  For example, in the present embodiment, the mark 10 is a “+” mark, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the mark 10 may be a simple shape such as a “◯” mark.

  In the present embodiment, the number of CCD cameras 20 is one. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a plurality of CCD cameras 20 may be installed. In this case, the number of landmarks 10 at each sales floor may be counted through one CCD camera 20 or may be counted through two or more CCD cameras 20 and averaged.

  The method performed by the POS terminal 30 of the present invention may be applied to a program for causing a computer to execute. In addition, the program can be stored in a storage medium and can be provided to the outside via a network.

10 mark 20 CCD camera 30 POS terminal 31 acquisition unit 32 calculation unit 33 storage unit

Claims (10)

A congestion status management system for managing the congestion status in a store,
A mark placed on the floor in the store;
A photographing unit for photographing the floor in the store;
A congestion state having a calculation unit that counts the number of landmarks recognized in the image portion of the floor in the image photographed by the photographing unit, and calculates the degree of congestion in the store using the counted number of landmarks Management system. The calculation unit includes:
For each sales floor in the store, the number of landmarks recognized in the image portion of the floor of the sales floor in the image taken by the photographing unit is counted, and the degree of congestion of the sales floor is determined using the number of the counted landmarks. The congestion status management system according to claim 1, which is calculated. The calculation unit calculates the degree of congestion in the store every predetermined time,
The congestion status management system according to claim 1, further comprising a storage unit that stores the degree of congestion in the store calculated by the calculation unit at each predetermined time. A congestion status management device for managing the congestion status in a store,
An acquisition unit that acquires an image of a floor in which the landmarks are arranged in the store;
A congestion state having a calculation unit that counts the number of landmarks recognized in the image portion of the floor in the image acquired by the acquisition unit, and calculates the degree of congestion in the store using the counted number of landmarks Management device. The calculation unit includes:
For each sales floor in the store, the number of landmarks recognized in the image portion of the floor of the sales floor in the image acquired by the acquisition unit is counted, and the degree of congestion of the sales floor is determined using the counted number of landmarks. The congestion status management device according to claim 4, wherein the congestion status management device calculates. The calculation unit calculates the degree of congestion in the store every predetermined time,
The congestion status management device according to claim 4, further comprising a storage unit that stores the degree of congestion in the store calculated by the calculation unit at each predetermined time. A congestion status management method performed by a congestion status management device that manages the congestion status in a store,
An acquisition step in which the acquisition unit acquires an image in which the floor in which the mark is placed is acquired in the store;
A calculation step in which the calculation unit counts the number of landmarks recognized in the image portion of the floor in the acquired image, and calculates the degree of congestion in the store using the counted number of landmarks. Situation management method.   In the calculation step, for each sales floor in the store, the number of landmarks recognized in the image portion of the floor of the sales floor in the acquired image is counted, and the number of the counted landmarks is used to congest the sales floor. The congestion status management method according to claim 7, wherein the degree is calculated. In the calculating step, the degree of congestion in the store is calculated every predetermined time,
Storage unit, for each of the predetermined time, the calculated, further comprising, congestion management method according to claim 7 or 8 a storage step of storing the congestion in the shop. A congestion status management device that manages the congestion status in the store,
Means for acquiring an image obtained by photographing the floor in which the landmark is placed in the store , and the number of landmarks recognized in the image portion of the floor in the acquired image, and using the counted number of landmarks And a program for functioning as a means for calculating the degree of congestion in the store.

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