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

Claim 6:
7. A skeletal information threshold setting method comprising:
accepting, by a computer processor, an input of an important joint among multiple joints of a subject and a confidence threshold for the important joint; and
acquiring, by the computer processor, 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 setting 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 in the setting include setting a higher threshold for the important joint among the multiple joints of the subject than for a non-important joint;
receiving, by the computer processor, an image of the subject from an image device;
estimating, by the computer processor, positions of joints of the subject from the received image;
determining, by the computer processor, whether to use the estimated position of the joints based on the confidence thresholds; and
diagnosing posture of the subject using the estimated position of the joints in response to the confidence thresholds exceeding a threshold.