Sony patents camera system that diagnoses why object recognition fails
Sony describes a system that uses machine learning to identify objects in images and then analyzes why the recognition might be inaccurate. To find the cause of errors, the system captures low-resolution images with high color depth to inspect specific details that standard images might miss.
In the filing’s own words
There is provided an information processing apparatus which includes a recognition processing section that performs object recognition processing on sensor information from a sensor section by use of a trained machine learning model, a causal analysis section that analyzes the cause of a result of recognition by the recognition processing section on the basis of the sensor information from the sensor section and the result of recognition by the reception processing section and a control section that controls an output of the sensor section. The sensor section is an image sensor. The causal analysis section determines the cause of a drop in characteristic of recognition by the recognition processing section on the basis of low-resolution high-bit-length image data for causal analysis.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: circuitry configured to; execute object recognition on sensor information from an image sensor by use of a trained machine learning model; output a result of the object recognition based on the execution of the object recognition; analyze a cause of the result of the object recognition based on the sensor information from the image sensor and the result of the object recognition; and control the image sensor to output low-resolution high-bit-length image data for the analysis of the cause.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and sensor apparatus
- Patent number
- US12749302B2
- Application number
- 18262411
- Filed
- Dec 3, 2021
- Granted
- Sep 29, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06V 10/98 Physics & computingG06V 10/12 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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