Patent ID: 8655078

Claim:
A congestion estimating apparatus comprising: a computer; and a non-transitory storage medium storing a program for configuring the computer to act as during execution of the program: an area dividing unit that divides a moving image into partial areas; a movement information determining unit that determines whether or not there is a movement in each of the partial areas; a person information determining unit that determines whether or not there is a person in each of the partial areas; and a staying determining unit that receives determination results from the movement information determining unit and the person information determining unit to determine a state of area for each of the partial areas, wherein the staying determining unit determines the state of area as a movement area in which there is a movement of person when the movement information determining unit determines that there is a movement and the person information determining unit determines that there is a person, the staying determining unit determines the state of area as a noise area when the movement information determining unit determines that there is a movement and the person information determining unit determines that there is no person, the staying determining unit determines the state of area as a staying area in which there is a person who is staying when the movement information determining unit determines that there is no movement and the person information determining unit determines that there is a person, and the staying determining unit determines the state of area as a background area in which there is no person when the movement information determining unit determines that there is no movement and the person information determining unit determines that there no person.