Sony patents camera system that improves object detection by relearning from specific images
Sony describes a system where a camera continuously captures images to detect a specific object using a trained model. The system identifies images where the object is detected with a specific level of confidence and uses those images to retrain the model, helping it recognize the object better over time.
In the filing’s own words
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a first image through imaging, a determination unit that determines whether a predetermined object is included in the first image acquired by the acquisition unit based on a model that has learned the predetermined object, and a selection unit that selects a second image from among images determined by the determination unit as including the predetermined object, and executes relearning of the model by using the selected second image.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a camera configured to continuously capture a plurality of first images at an installation location; and circuitry configured to: determine whether a predetermined object is included in each of the plurality of first images based on a model that has learned the predetermined object by comparing a recognition degree with a first threshold; identify a subset of images from the plurality of first images as candidates for relearning based on the determination; select a second image from among the candidate images by using a second threshold different from the first threshold, the second threshold being a value defining a specific range of recognition degrees with which the recognition degree indicating ease of recognition of the predetermined object is increased as compared with the first threshold; and execute relearning of the model by using the selected second image.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation)
- Official title
- Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and a computer-readable storage medium storing an information processing program
- Patent number
- US12738003B2
- Application number
- 18685520
- Filed
- Feb 21, 2022
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06V 10/12 Physics & computingG06V 10/82 Physics & computingH04N 23/62 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in AI & software
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