Sony patents system to check if machine actions take the right amount of time
Sony describes a device that uses a pre-trained model to track how long specific actions take during a process. It compares these times against expected values and displays the results in a graph to spot if any steps are taking too long or too short.
In the filing’s own words
An action analysis device includes an acquisition unit that acquires behavior data indicating a behavior of an object during an operation process, which has been recognized by a model preliminarily learned for recognizing the object; and a determination unit that determines a required time for a process corresponding to the behavior data based on the behavior data acquired by the acquisition unit. For example, based on time information set as the required time for the process, the determination unit determines a required time for a process corresponding to the behavior data.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An action analysis device comprising: processing circuitry configured to acquire behavior data indicating a behavior of an object during an operation process, which has been recognized by a model preliminarily learned for recognizing the object; determine a required time for a process corresponding to the behavior data based on the behavior data; display a result obtained by comparing first behavior data optionally selected from a plurality of pieces of behavior data with second behavior data used as a comparison target on a user interface in a graph; and determine whether or not there is an abnormality in a process corresponding to the second behavior data based on similarity between a waveform corresponding to the first behavior data and a waveform corresponding to the second behavior data in the graph.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation)
- Official title
- Action analysis device, action analysis method, action analysis program, photographing device, and action analysis system
- Patent number
- US12738098B2
- Application number
- 18681110
- Filed
- Mar 22, 2022
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 14
Classified under
G06V 40/20 Physics & computingG06V 10/70 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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