Patent Document ID: 8045758
Application ID: 12216728
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A conduct inference apparatus comprising: means for acquiring a capture image, in which a person is imaged, each time the capture image is taken; means for detecting, as a detection characteristic point, a characteristic point, which is designated on a body of the person, in the capture image each time the capture image is acquired by the acquiring means; means for storing at least one conduct inference model which designates, with respect to a content of a specific conduct, (i) a return point, (ii) at least one transit region assigned to the return point, and (iii) a conduct direction being a direction predetermined with respect to the transit region, the return point being a point at which the characteristic point of a person is located when the person performs the specific conduct, the transit region being indicated by a coordinate system having an origin at the return point, the transit region being a range through which the characteristic point passes when the person intends to perform the specific conduct, the conduct direction in which the feature point moves while passing through the transit region when the person intends to perform the specific conduct; means for extracting a conduct inference model from the at least conduct inference model stored in the storing means, wherein in the conduct inference model extracted, a relative characteristic point is located within the transit region, the relative characteristic point being a position of the detection characteristic point in the coordinate system having the origin at the return point, and an angle between a movement direction of the detection characteristic point and the conduct direction is within a predetermined range; and means for inferring, as a conduct which the person imaged in the capture image intends to perform, a specific conduct corresponding to a conduct inference model that is extracted continuously by the extracting means in times equal to or greater than a predetermined number of times.