Moving object measurement device employing a three-dimensional analysis to obtain characteristics of the moving object

A moving object measurement device comprising:

• first capturing means which captures an image of the moving object;
• driving means to define a capturing direction and a capturing range of the capturing means;
• image processing means to calculate a location of the moving object in an image included in the image signal obtained by the capturing means;
• location calculation means which calculates coordinates of the moving object in real space based on location information on the location obtained by the image processing means and the capturing direction and the capturing range of the capturing means responsive to obtaining the image signal;
• three-dimensional area setting means to set an area where the moving object can move in a three-dimensional real spatial coordinate system;
• area mapping means to map the area in the three-dimensional real spatial coordinate system to a two-dimensional area corresponding to the capturing direction and the capturing range of the capturing means;
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• two-dimensional area setting means to provide the two-dimensional area to the image processing means, wherein the image processing means includes area limiting means to limit a calculation of the location of the moving object to the two-dimensional area set by the two-dimensional area setting means.