Content output system, output control device and output control method
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHirotaka KUBOTA
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Abstract
Based on captured images obtained when an image capture device takes images in an image capture range, a change in the moving speed of one passerby or each of a plurality of passerby contained in the captured images is calculated. When there is a passerby whose moving speed is decreased in the image capture range, the passerby is paying attention to the content, and therefore content to be outputted by a content output device is switched from ordinary content to specific content. On the other hand, when only passerby who are moving at constant speed are present in the image capture range, the passerby are not paying attention to the content, and hence the content output device continues to output the ordinary content.
Claims9
A content output system comprising:
- an image capture device;
- a storage device storing a plurality of pieces of content;
- a content output device for outputting content stored in the storage device;
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- an output control device for controlling the content output device to switch and output the content, based on images which are captured by the image capture device and inputted in a time sequence to the output control device,
- wherein the output control device includes;
- a human determination section for determining, based on the images, whether or not the images contain a person;
- a change calculation section for calculating, when the human determination section determines that the images contain a person, a change in a moving speed of the person contained in the images;
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- an output control section for selecting content according to a result of calculation by the change calculation section and a result of determination by the human determination section from the content stored in the storage device and causing the content output device to output the selected content.
An output control device for controlling switching and outputting of a plurality of pieces of content in an external device, based on images which are inputted in a time sequence to the output control device, comprising:
- a human determination section for determining, based on the images, whether or not the images contain a person;
- a change calculation section for calculating, when the human determination section determines that the images contain a person, a change in a moving speed of the person contained in the images;
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- an output control section for selecting and outputting content according to a result of calculation by the change calculation section and a result of determination by the human determination section.
An output control method for controlling an output control device to switch and output a plurality of pieces of content in an external device, based on images which are inputted in a time sequence to the output control device, comprising the steps of
- when the images contain a person, calculating a change in a moving speed of the person contained in the images;
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- selecting and outputting content according to a result of calculation of the change and whether or not the images contain a person.
A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to control switching and outputting of a plurality of pieces of content in an external device, based on images which are inputted in a time sequence to the computer, said computer program comprising:
- a human determination step for causing the computer to determine, based on the images, whether or not the images contain a person;
- a change calculation step for causing the computer to calculate a change in a moving speed of a person contained in the images when a determination is made in the human determination step that the images contain a person;
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- an output control step for causing the computer to select and output content according to a result of calculation in the change calculation step and a result of determination in the human determination step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.