Patent ID: 9131664
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. An excrement detection system, comprising: an excretion information acquiring apparatus that acquires excretion information indicating whether or not excretion has been performed by a pet present in a living space; a toilet observing apparatus that observes inside of a pet toilet installed in the living space to acquire toilet information regarding the inside of the pet toilet; an excretion information processing unit that determines whether or not the pet has performed excretion based on the excretion information; a toilet information processing unit that determines whether or not the pet is present in the pet toilet based on the toilet information; an excretion position determining unit that determines that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet when the excretion information processing unit determines that the pet has performed excretion and the toilet information processing unit determines that the pet is not present in the pet toilet; and a notifying unit that notifies an owner of the pet that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet when the excretion position determining unit determines that the pet has performed excretion outside of the pet toilet.