Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toilet usage management system and cat toilet
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Application No.: US16339587Application Date: 2018-08-29
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Publication No.: US10733430B2Publication Date: 2020-08-04
- Inventor: Koji Hori , Mari Ohbuchi , Teruki Hirahata , Atsushi Hiroyama
- Applicant: Hachi Tama INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Fujisawa-Shi, Kanagawa
- Assignee: HACHI TAMA INC.
- Current Assignee: HACHI TAMA INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Fujisawa-Shi, Kanagawa
- Agency: Masuvalley & Partners
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@55f600c3 com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@46da7e63
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/031936 WO 20180829
- International Announcement: WO2019/044899 WO 20190307
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; A01K1/01 ; G06K9/62

Abstract:
A cat toilet, etc., which specifies precisely one cat who entered a toilet for cat is provided. The present invention relates to a camera for capturing a plurality of images of a cat entering a cat toilet, a cat identifying process for identifying identifiers of one cat appearing in a plurality of images based on a plurality of images captured by the camera section, the cat identification processing section extracts each feature amount from a plurality of images, determines the identifier of one cat as the identification result for each image based on the feature amount, and makes a majority decision of the identification result based on this, identifiers of one cat appearing in a plurality of images are specified.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200042780A1 TOILET USAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND CAT TOILET Public/Granted day:2020-02-06
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