Patent ID: 11900707
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A skeletal information threshold setting apparatus comprising:
a joint information inputter configured to accept an input of an important joint among multiple joints of a subject and a confidence threshold for the important joint;
a threshold setter configured to acquire a confidence threshold for each of multiple joints of the subject including the important joint based on the important joint and the confidence threshold for the important joint that were input, and to set the acquired confidence thresholds for the joints as thresholds to be used in making a determination regarding a skeletal estimation result for the subject, wherein the threshold setter sets a higher threshold for the important joint among the multiple joints of the subject than for a non-important joint,
an image input unit configured to receive an image of the subject from an image device;
a skeleton detection unit configured to receive the image and estimate positions of joints of the subject from the received image;
a determination unit configured to determine whether to use the estimated position of the joints based on the confidence thresholds; and diagnose posture of the subject using the estimated position of the joints in response to the confidence thresholds exceeding a threshold;
wherein each of the joint information inputter, threshold setter, the image input unit, the skeleton detection unit and the determination unit is implemented by:
i) computer executable instructions executed by at least one processor,
ii) at least one circuitry or
iii) a combination of computer executable instructions executed by at least one processor and at least one circuitry.