Announce apparatus and method for support-needing user
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorTomohiro AZUMA
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Abstract
An announce apparatus comprises an analysis part that obtains a capture image capturing at least any one of an area including a boarding position at a station or inside of a vehicle so as to determine, based on the capture image, whether a person who needs support (termed hereinafter as “support-needing user”) will board on/off the vehicle; and an announce part that announces boarding on/off support information relating to the support-needing user when the analysis part determines that the support-needing user will board on/off the vehicle.
Claims20
An announcement apparatus, comprising
- at least a processor;
- and
- a memory in circuit communication with the processor;
- wherein the processor is configured to execute program instructions stored in the memory to implement:
- an analysis part that obtains a capture image capturing at least any one of an area including a boarding position at a station or inside of a vehicle so as to determine, based on the capture image, whether a person will board on/off the vehicle;
- and
- an announcement part that announces boarding on/off information relating to the person when the analysis part determines that the person will board on/off the vehicle.
An announcement system, configured by comprising:
- a station-side announcement apparatus that comprises:
- at least a processor;
- and
- a memory in circuit communication with the processor;
- wherein the processor is configured to execute program instructions stored in the memory to implement:
- a first analysis part that obtains a first capture image capturing an area including a boarding position at a station so as to determine, based on the first capture image, whether or not a first person will board on a vehicle, and
- a first announcement part that announces boarding on/off information relating to the first person when the first analysis part determines that the first person will board on the vehicle, and
- a vehicle-side announcement apparatus that comprises:
- at least a processor;
- and
- a memory in circuit communication with the processor;
- wherein the processor is configured to execute program instructions stored in the memory to implement:
- a second analysis part that obtains a second capture image capturing inside of a vehicle so as to determine, based on the second capture image, whether or not a second person will board off the vehicle, and
- a second announcement part that announces boarding on/off information relating to the second person when the second analysis part determines that the second person will board off the vehicle.
An announcement method, comprising:
- a step of obtaining a capture image capturing at least any one of an area including a boarding position of a station or inside of a vehicle,
- a step of determining, based on the capture image, whether a person will board on/off the vehicle;
- a step of announcing boarding on/off information relating to the person when it is determined that the person will board on/off the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.