Patent ID: 9569902
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: B61L,G06K,G07C,H04N

Claim:
1. A passenger counter that counts the number of persons who get on/off a vehicle, comprising: an imaging unit installed at an inside of the vehicle, capturing a platform of the vehicle from upper portion to obtain a captured image, and recognizing/tracking a person appearing on the captured image; a setting unit configured to set, on the captured image, an inner area which is an area corresponding to a passage inside the vehicle including the platform, and at least two outer areas, one of which is an area surrounding the inner area and inside the vehicle, and the other one of which is an area surrounding the inner area and outside the vehicle; a count determination unit configured to count the number of persons who move from one outer area to the other outer area through the inner area while a door of the platform is opened, configured not to count the number of persons while the door is closed, and configured to perform processing of determining, as a person to be counted, a person existing in the inner area at a time when the opened door is closed; and a person area position data section that issues a unique person ID for a person who is newly recognized on the captured image and newly creates area position data associated with the person ID as soon as the new person is recognized on the captured image, the area position data including data indicative of a current area position (T the count determination unit determining that a person who moves among the outer areas and the inner area on the captured image is a getting-on passenger and adds the person to the number of getting-on passengers in a case where the recorded data of the past area position (T the count determination unit editing the area position data of a person whose area value of the current area position (T