JP2017055373A - Salesroom crime prevention program, tablet terminal and salesroom - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To introduce a salesroom crime prevention system into a shop more easily than ever.SOLUTION: There is provided a salesroom crime prevention program for a tablet terminal 10 having a front camera 1 on the same surface as a surface equipped with a display device 2. The salesroom crime prevention program causes an information processing unit of the tablet terminal 10 to execute display processing to display on the display device 2 real time a salesroom video which is input from the front camera 1. By the installation of a monitor camera near the ceiling, imaging and display become possible using the tablet terminal alone, differently from the conventional crime prevention camera system in which a monitor is installed near the register.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a system for preventing crime in a store in a store using an image taken by a camera.

  In a conventional sales floor crime prevention system, a sales floor is photographed by a monitoring camera provided near the ceiling in the store, and the video of the photographed sales floor is displayed on a monitor near the cash register (eg, Patent Document 1). Crime in the sales floor is prevented by letting the monitor know that the sales floor is filmed. However, in the conventional system, the surveillance camera and the monitor must be separately installed and connected, and the large introduction work and cost hinder the promotion of the system introduction to the store.

JP, 2015-19171, A

  An object of the present invention is to improve the disadvantages of the conventional example, and in particular to provide a system that can more easily introduce the system into the store than before.

  In order to solve this problem, the present application provides a sales floor crime prevention program for a tablet terminal having a front camera on the same surface as the display device. The sales floor crime prevention program of the present invention causes the information processing unit of the tablet terminal to execute processing for displaying the sales floor video input from the front camera on the display device in real time. According to this, unlike a conventional security camera system in which a surveillance camera is installed near the ceiling and a monitor is installed near the cash register, shooting and display can be performed with a single tablet terminal.

  Therefore, according to the present invention, the sales floor crime prevention system can be introduced into the store more easily than before.

FIG. 1 is a sales floor configuration example showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of the tablet terminal shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a security process executed by the tablet terminal of FIG.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. As shown in FIG. 1A, the sales floor crime prevention system of the present embodiment is configured by installing a tablet terminal 10 in which a dedicated application (application software) is installed on a product display shelf S of the sales floor. The dedicated app above is called a security camera app. The tablet terminal 10 includes the front camera 1 on the same surface as the display device 2.
As shown in FIG. 1B, the tablet terminal 10 is fixed to the display shelf S via the fixing means 21. In the present embodiment, the fixing means 21 is a cylindrical bar. The tablet terminal 10 is stored in the anti-theft case 20. One end of the fixing means 21 is fixed to the anti-theft case 20. The other end of the fixing means 21 is fixed to the display shelf S. The connecting portion between the anti-theft case 20 and the fixing means 21 is a mechanism that can rotate the anti-theft case 20 around the fixing means 21 that is a cylindrical bar. By rotating the anti-theft case 20, the angle of the tablet terminal 10 is adjusted so that the field of view of the front camera 1 catches a customer visiting the display shelf S where the tablet terminal 10 is installed. The anti-theft case 20 can supply power to the tablet terminal 10 from the outside by a power cord 22.

  FIG. 2 shows an outline of the hardware configuration of the tablet terminal 10. The tablet terminal 10 includes an information processing unit 4 including a processor, a chipset, and a RAM (main storage device). Moreover, it has said front camera 1, said display apparatus 2, and the touch panel 3 which functions on this display apparatus 2. FIG. Furthermore, it has a built-in storage 5 (auxiliary storage device), an external memory 6 (auxiliary storage device), and a communication device such as Wi-Fi. Other equipment (such as audio) equipped on a general tablet terminal is not shown.

  Next, an operation realized by the information processing unit 4 executing the security camera application will be described. The security camera application is installed from the external memory 6. It may be downloaded and installed by the communication device 7. The security camera application provides various functions, and FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of the security process. When the security camera application is executed in the tablet terminal 10 and the security process of the functions is activated, the information processing unit 4 displays the video input from the front camera 1 on the display device 2 in real time (S1). . In the meantime, the information processing unit 4 reads the still image shooting period and the moving object detection valid / invalid setting data from the setting information stored in the internal storage 5 in advance, and checks the validity / invalidity of the moving object detection (S2). . When the moving object detection is valid, the information processing unit 4 performs moving object detection (S3) based on the video input from the front camera 1. When a moving object is detected, the information processing unit 4 checks the arrival of the read imaging cycle (S4). The information processing unit 4 also proceeds to the process of S4 when the moving object detection is invalid in S2. If no moving object is detected in S3, the information processing section 4 repeats the processing from S1. When the information processing unit 4 detects the arrival of the shooting period in S4, the front camera 1 takes a still image of the sales floor, and accumulates the data of the shot still image in the built-in storage 5 (S5). This still image is called a photographed still image. Thereafter, the information processing unit 4 repeatedly executes the processes from S1 to S5. Even when the arrival of the imaging cycle is not detected in S4, the information processing section 4 repeats the processing from S1.

  Through the above processing, when the store visitor visits the sales floor and takes a picture within the field of view of the front camera 1, the video of the store visitor is displayed on the display device 2 of the tablet terminal 10 in real time. In addition, the photographed still image showing the store visitor is accumulated in the internal storage 5 of the tablet terminal 10.

  Even if a visitor who visits the sales floor has a criminal intention, he / she notices that he / she is shown on the display device 2 of the tablet terminal 10 installed on the display shelf and has been photographed. Can be prevented. Since it is possible to show images directly shot to those who intend to commit crimes, the crime prevention effect is enhanced.

  The security effect described above can be obtained simply by installing the tablet terminal 10 that executes the security camera application on the display shelf of the sales floor. As in the prior art, installation work of the surveillance camera near the ceiling, installation work of a separate monitor monitor, and connection work between the surveillance camera and the monitor monitor are unnecessary. Since a large-scale introduction work is unnecessary and the cost can be reduced, the sales floor security system can be introduced into the store more easily than before.

  The information processing unit 4 provides various functions other than the above by executing the security camera application. Each function will be described below.

[Setting functions such as shooting interval]
The information processing unit 4 records settings such as a shooting period input from the touch panel 3 in setting information of the internal storage 5. The setting information includes a shooting cycle, a user authentication password, valid / invalid of the moving object detection function, valid / invalid of the POP display function, and the like. As the shooting cycle is set shorter, the number of shot still images per unit time can be increased. On the other hand, the longer the shooting cycle is set, the more the recording area of the internal storage 5 can be saved. An optimal shooting cycle can be set according to the environment. The information processing unit 4 may display a setting menu screen on the display device 2 through a predetermined user authentication process immediately after the security camera application is activated.

[Motion detection function]
As described above, when the moving object detection function is set to be effective, the information processing unit 4 executes a moving object detection process that performs moving object detection from the video captured by the front camera 1. In this case, the information processing unit 4 executes the processes from S4 to S5 in FIG. 3 only while the moving object is detected by the moving object detection process.

[Resume function]
The information processing unit 4 turns off the screen display of the display device 2 when the moving object detection process does not detect a moving object for a preset time. Burn-in of the display device 2 can be suppressed, and deterioration of the display device 2 can be suppressed.

[Image search function and thumbnail display function]
The information processing unit 4 records the shooting date and time stored in the internal storage 5 in association with the shooting date and time. When the information processing unit 4 receives an image search request from the touch panel 3, the information processing unit 4 displays a search screen that accepts an input of a date and time range as a search condition on the display device 2. The information processing unit 4 searches the built-in storage 5 for a shot still image corresponding to the date and time range input on the search screen, and searches the plurality of shot still images for each unit time (for example, every minute). ) Group and display a representative thumbnail image representing each group (for example, a thumbnail image of the first photographed still image within a unit time) on the display device 2. When the representative thumbnail image displayed on the display device 2 is clicked on the touch panel 3, the information processing unit 4 displays, on the display device 2, the individual thumbnail image of each captured still image included in the group corresponding to the clicked representative thumbnail image. indicate. When the individual thumbnail image displayed on the display device 2 is clicked on the touch panel 3, the information processing unit 4 reads out a captured still image corresponding to the clicked individual thumbnail image from the internal storage 5 and displays it on the display device 2.

[Storage period for still images]
The information processing unit 4 may delete from the built-in storage 5 in order from the photographed still image with the oldest shooting date and time when the remaining amount of the built-in storage 5 becomes below a certain level.

[Function to export still images to external memory]
When the touch panel 3 is requested to write a captured still image to the external memory 6, the information processing unit 4 displays a selection screen on the display device 2 that allows selection of the captured still image to be written for each shooting date. The information processing unit 4 records one or more photographed still images corresponding to the photographing date and time selected from the touch panel 3 on the selection screen in the external memory 6 using a file of a general image format.

[POP display function]
When the information processing unit 4 enters a mode in which a POP moving image (advertisement screen) is to be displayed on the display device 2, the information processing unit 4 displays the POP moving image stored in advance in the external memory 6 on the display device 2. The information processing unit 4 may repeatedly execute the processes from S2 to S5 in FIG. 3 during the POP moving image display.

  The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, in order to obtain a crime prevention effect, it is not always necessary to record a photographed still image in the internal storage 5. The installation location of the tablet terminal 10 is not necessarily limited to the product display shelf. The information processing unit may output sound from the tablet terminal when the POP display function is executed. The information processing unit may acquire surrounding sounds from the microphone of the tablet terminal and store them in the built-in storage when performing crime prevention processing. The information processing unit may store various types of information stored in the internal storage in an external memory instead of the internal storage.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Front camera 2 Display apparatus 3 Touch panel 4 Information processing part 5 Internal storage 6 External memory 7 Communication apparatus 10 Tablet terminal

Claims (7)

A sales floor crime prevention program for a tablet terminal having a front camera on the same surface as the display device,
In the information processing unit of the tablet terminal,
Processing for displaying real-time video of the sales floor input from the front camera on the display device;
A sales floor crime prevention program. In the sales floor crime prevention program according to claim 1, in the information processing unit of the tablet terminal,
A process of reading the shooting cycle from the storage device;
The read shooting period is inspected, and each time the shooting period arrives, a still image of the sales floor is shot with the front camera, and the still image of the shot sales floor is stored in a storage device; and
A sales floor crime prevention program.   The sales floor crime prevention program according to claim 2, wherein the information processing unit causes the still image shooting process to be executed on condition that a moving object is detected from the video of the front camera.   The computer-readable recording medium which recorded the sales floor crime prevention program of any one of Claim 1 thru | or 3.   The said tablet terminal which installed the sales floor crime prevention program of any one of Claims 1 thru | or 3.   A sales floor equipped with the tablet terminal according to claim 5 on a product display shelf of the sales floor. In the sales floor according to claim 6,
A sales floor provided with an angle adjustment mechanism for a tablet terminal between the product display shelf and the tablet terminal.