Information processing apparatus and computer readable storage medium

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a program for causing a computer to serve as:

• a determination unit configured to determine, whether a vehicle is located inside a lower accuracy area, in which an estimation accuracy of an emotion estimation process lowers, wherein the emotion estimation process is a process for estimating an emotion of an occupant based on an image of the occupant of the vehicle captured by an image-capturing unit provided in the vehicle;
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• an emotion estimating unit configured to estimate the emotion of the occupant by performing different emotion estimation processes depending on whether the vehicle is located inside the lower accuracy area or not, wherein the vehicle is located inside the lower accuracy area under a condition that sunlight or shadows interfere with the image of the occupant.

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a determination unit configured to determine whether a vehicle is located inside a lower accuracy area, in which an estimation accuracy of an emotion estimation process lowers, wherein the emotion estimation process is a process for estimating an emotion of an occupant of the vehicle based on an image of the occupant captured by an image-capturing unit provided in the vehicle;
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• an emotion estimating unit configured to estimate the emotion of the occupant by performing different emotion estimation processes depending on whether the vehicle is located inside the lower accuracy area or not, and estimates the emotion of the occupant based on the emotion of the occupant while inside the lower accuracy area and the emotion of the occupant while outside the lower accuracy area.