Patent ID: 7433494
Filing Date: 2008-10-07
Classification: B60R,G06T

Abstract:
1. A moving body detecting apparatus comprising: image acquiring means for acquiring a plurality of static images of a predetermined region of a real space sequentially in time; and extracting means for extracting a figure indicating a candidate moving body from said plurality of static images; setting means for setting a watching region in said predetermined region of said real space, the watching region defining a high probability of existence of said candidate moving body; first determining means for determining whether or not said candidate moving body is a moving body which moves in said watching region by using information about said figure indicating said candidate moving body extracted from said plurality of static images by said extracting means; classifying means for classifying said watching region of two or more of the images into either an allowable area or an unallowable area based on an extracted result of the extracting means, said allowable area allowing said moving body to exist therein and said unallowable area prohibiting said moving body from existing therein; and second determining means for determining that said moving body moves only when said figure indicating said candidate moving body moves from said allowable area to said unallowable area.