Invention Grant
- Patent Title: State determination device, eye closure determination device, state determination method, and storage medium
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Application No.: US15243823Application Date: 2016-08-22
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Publication No.: US09959635B2Publication Date: 2018-05-01
- Inventor: Wataru Nakai
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2015-193177 20150930
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06T7/90 ; G08B21/06 ; H04N5/232

Abstract:
A state determination device includes a calculator that receives multiple eye region images captured at different timings in a time interval from when a person opening eyes closes the eyes to when the person opens the eyes next and calculates a luminance value relating to multiple pixels included in each of the eye region images and a determiner, wherein the determiner calculates a time interval from a first time point when the luminance value relating to the pixels reaches a predetermined first luminance value for the first time to a second time point when the luminance value relating to the pixels reaches a second luminance value after the first time point; if a time interval from the first time point to the second time point is a first time interval, the determiner determines that the person is in a first state; if the time interval from the first time point to the second time point is a second time interval which is shorter than the first time interval, the determiner determines that the person is in a second state which differs from the first state; and the determiner outputs a determination result.
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