JP7567583B2 - Garbage disposal support device and garbage disposal support method - Google Patents

Description

This disclosure relates to a garbage disposal support device and a garbage disposal support method.

In order to reduce illegal waste disposal, it is important to reduce the burden on people who dispose of waste. For example, the trash can in Patent Document 1 is configured so that a movable door opens automatically when a weight sensor placed in front of the trash can detects the presence of a person. Furthermore, the trash can in Patent Document 1 is configured to warn the person who disposed of the trash if trash other than the plastic trash to be disposed of is disposed of.

JP 2008-168951 A

The trash can in Patent Document 1 is designed so that a movable door automatically opens when it detects the presence of a person in front of the trash can (i.e., the disposal location) to reduce the burden on people who dispose of trash, but there is a need to further reduce the burden on people who dispose of trash.

The purpose of this disclosure is to solve the above-mentioned problems and to realize a garbage disposal support device and a garbage disposal support method that can reduce the burden on people who dispose of garbage.

A garbage disposal support device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes:
a location acquisition unit that acquires location information of a person carrying an object;
an object image acquisition unit that acquires image information of an object held by the person;
a dust determination unit that compares image information of the object held by the person with dust image information stored in a database to determine whether the object is dust;
a route generating unit that generates route information to a waste disposal site based on location information of the person and waste disposal site information stored in the database when the object is waste;
A transmission unit that transmits the route information to a display device;
Equipped with.

A waste disposal support method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes:
acquiring location information of a person carrying the object;
acquiring image information of an object carried by the person;
a step of comparing image information of the object held by the person with dust image information stored in a database to determine whether the object is dust;
If the object is garbage, generating route information to a garbage disposal location based on location information of the person and garbage disposal location information stored in the database;
transmitting the route information to a display device;
Equipped with.

This disclosure makes it possible to realize a garbage disposal support device and a garbage disposal support method that can reduce the burden on people who dispose of garbage.

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a waste disposal support system using a waste disposal support device according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the flow of disposing of an object using the waste disposal support system of the embodiment. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the flow of disposing of an object using the waste disposal support system of the embodiment. FIG. 13 is a diagram conceptually illustrating a state in which a person activates a support application on a mobile terminal. 10 is a diagram conceptually showing a state in which ID information of a portable terminal and face image information of a person are acquired; FIG. 1 is a diagram conceptually illustrating a state in which an image of a person entering a facility is captured. FIG. 13 is a diagram conceptually showing image information of an object extracted from image information within a facility. 13 is a diagram conceptually illustrating how the type of an object is determined by comparing image information of the object with dust image information for each type. FIG. 13 is a diagram conceptually showing how a waste disposal location is specified based on object type information and waste disposal location information for each type of garbage. FIG. 13 is a diagram conceptually illustrating the mobile terminal when prompting a user to input whether or not route guidance is required. FIG. FIG. 2 is a diagram conceptually illustrating route information displayed on a display device. FIG. 13 is a diagram conceptually showing image information of the vicinity of a disposal site. FIG. 13 is a diagram conceptually illustrating the mobile terminal when points are awarded.

Specific embodiments to which the present disclosure is applied will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. However, the present disclosure is not limited to the following embodiments. In addition, the following descriptions and drawings have been simplified as appropriate for clarity of explanation.

Figure 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a garbage disposal support system using a garbage disposal support device according to this embodiment. The garbage disposal support system 1 according to this embodiment is suitable for guiding a person who has an object that is garbage to a disposal site located within a facility, for example.

As shown in FIG. 1, the waste disposal support system 1 includes, for example, an authentication device 2, an imaging device 3, a display device 4, a waste disposal support device 5, and a database 6, which are interconnected via a network 7.

Here, the network 7 is, for example, the Internet, and is constructed using a telephone line network, a wireless communication path, Ethernet (registered trademark), etc. However, the authentication device 2, the imaging device 3, the display device 4, the waste disposal support device 5, and the database 6 may be connected to each other by wire or wirelessly.

The authentication device 2 is placed, for example, at the entrance of the facility. As shown in FIG. 1, the authentication device 2 includes an ID reading unit 21 and an imaging unit 22. The ID reading unit 21 reads ID information of a mobile terminal 8 owned by a person entering the facility. The imaging unit 22 includes a camera, etc. The imaging unit 22 captures a facial image of the person entering the facility, and links the captured facial image information to the ID information of the mobile terminal 8. Here, the mobile terminal 8 is a smartphone or a tablet PC (Personal Computer) connected to the network 7, etc.

However, the authentication device 2 only needs to be able to acquire ID information of the mobile terminal 8 and facial image information of the person who owns the mobile terminal 8, and may acquire, for example, ID information of the mobile terminal 8 and facial image information of the person who owns the mobile terminal 8 that are preregistered in a support app installed on the mobile terminal 8.

The imaging device 3 is equipped with a camera and the like, and captures images inside the facility. For example, the imaging device 3 is arranged along the facility's corridors so as to capture images of people walking along the corridors, and is also arranged around a waste disposal site located inside the facility so as to capture images of the area around the waste disposal site. Therefore, multiple imaging devices 3 are provided within the facility.

The display device 4 displays at least one of the disposal location information (i.e., disposal location information) and route information, which will be described later. The display device 4 is equipped with a projection device such as a projector, and is arranged along the corridors of the facility so that the disposal location information or route information can be displayed on the corridors or walls to people walking along the corridors.

As shown in FIG. 1, the waste disposal support device 5 includes, for example, an ID acquisition unit 51, a face image acquisition unit 52, a position acquisition unit 53, an object image acquisition unit 54, a waste determination unit 55, a path generation unit 56, a transmission/reception unit 57, a disposal image acquisition unit 58, a disposal confirmation unit 59, and a reward granting unit 60.

The ID acquisition unit 51 acquires the ID information of the mobile terminal 8 read by the ID reading unit 21 of the authentication device 2. However, the ID acquisition unit 51 only needs to be able to acquire the ID information of the mobile terminal 8, and may be equipped with, for example, the ID reading unit 21.

The facial image acquisition unit 52 acquires facial image information of the person who owns the mobile terminal 8 captured by the imaging unit 22 of the authentication device 2. However, the facial image acquisition unit 52 only needs to be able to acquire a facial image of the person who owns the mobile terminal 8, and may, for example, be equipped with the imaging unit 22.

The position acquisition unit 53 acquires position information within the facility of the person who owns the mobile terminal 8 based on facial image information of the person who owns the mobile terminal 8 and image information within the facility captured by the imaging device 3. The position acquisition unit 53 acquires position information of the person by, for example, comparing image information of a person captured in image information of the facility captured by each imaging device 3 with facial image information of the person who owns the mobile terminal 8 and identifying the person who owns the mobile terminal 8 within the image information. However, the position acquisition unit 53 may also acquire position information of the person based on position information from a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver or the like mounted on the mobile terminal 8.

The object image acquisition unit 54 acquires (extracts) image information of an object held by the person who owns the mobile terminal 8 by performing image processing on the image information of the inside of the facility captured by the imaging device 3. The dust determination unit 55 compares the image information of the object acquired by the object image acquisition unit 54 with the dust image information stored in the database 6 to determine whether the object is dust. At this time, the dust determination unit 55 may compare the image information of the object with the dust image information for each type stored in the database 6 to determine the type of object.

When the object is garbage, the route generation unit 56 identifies the disposal location of the object based on the location information of the person who owns the mobile terminal 8, the disposal location information stored in the database 6, and the facility passageway information stored in the database 6, and generates route information to the disposal location.

At this time, the path generating unit 56 may, for example, identify a disposal location that provides the shortest route from the person's current location to the disposal location of the object. The path generating unit 56 may also identify the disposal location of the object by taking into account the object type information and the disposal location information for each type of garbage stored in the database. The path generating unit 56 may generate route information in response to a request from the person who owns the mobile terminal 8.

The transmission/reception unit 57 is an interface with the network 7. The transmission/reception unit 57 receives ID information of the portable terminal 8 and facial image information of the person who owns the portable terminal 8 from the authentication device 2, and image information within the facility from the imaging device 3. The transmission/reception unit 57 also transmits disposal location information identified by the route generation unit 56 or route information generated by the route generation unit 56 to the display device 4 or the portable terminal 8.

The discard image acquisition unit 58 acquires image information of the surroundings of the discard location from an imaging device 3 arranged at the discard location so as to be able to capture images of the surroundings of the discard location. However, it is sufficient for the discard image acquisition unit 58 to acquire image information of the surroundings of the discard location, and may, for example, be provided with an imaging device 3 that captures images of the surroundings of the discard location. The discard confirmation unit 59 confirms whether the owner of the mobile terminal 8 has discarded an object at the discard location based on the image information of the surroundings of the discard location.

When a person who owns the mobile terminal 8 disposes of an object at a disposal site, the reward granting unit 60 grants a reward to that person. For example, the reward granting unit 60 transmits reward information that adds points or the like to the support app of the mobile terminal 8 via the transmission/reception unit 57.

At this time, the reward granting unit 60 may increase or decrease the amount of reward based on, for example, the size of the object to be disposed of, whether the object is recyclable, the distance to the disposal location, the amount of baggage, the weather, or the time from when the disposal location information is transmitted until the object is disposed of. The reward granting unit 60 may also transmit reward information to a server operated by a general point site.

The database 6 stores garbage image information, disposal location information, and facility passageway information. In this case, as described above, the database 6 may store garbage image information for each type and disposal location information for each type of garbage. Here, the garbage image information can be generated by supervised machine learning based on, for example, the shape, color, material, whether or not the garbage is recyclable, etc.

Next, the flow of disposing of an object using the waste disposal support system 1 of this embodiment will be described. Figures 2 and 3 are flow charts showing the flow of disposing of an object using the waste disposal support system of this embodiment. Figures 4 to 13 are conceptual diagrams showing the state of each process.

First, as shown in Figure 4, person P who owns mobile terminal 8 starts up the support app on the mobile terminal 8 (S1). Here, in Figure 4, the left side shows the person P who owns the mobile terminal 8, and the right side shows the support app on the mobile terminal 8 being started. Then, when person P enters within a preset range for the entrance of the facility, the ID reading unit 21 of the authentication device 2 reads the ID information of the mobile terminal 8 from the mobile terminal 8.

The imaging unit 22 of the authentication device 2 captures a facial image of the person P and associates the facial image information of the person P with the ID information of the mobile terminal 8. The authentication device 2 then transmits the ID information of the mobile terminal 8 and the facial image information of the person P who owns the mobile terminal 8 to the waste disposal support device 5.

As a result, as shown in FIG. 5, the ID acquisition unit 51 of the waste disposal support device 5 acquires the ID information of the mobile terminal 8 (S2). In addition, the face image acquisition unit 52 of the waste disposal support device 5 acquires face image information of the person P who owns the mobile terminal 8, which is linked to the ID information of the mobile terminal 8.

Next, as shown in FIG. 6, the imaging device 3 captures an image of the inside of the facility and transmits image information of the inside of the facility to the waste disposal support device 5. The position acquisition unit 53 of the waste disposal support device 5 compares the facial image information of the person P with the image information of the inside of the facility captured by the imaging device 3 to acquire position information of the person P within the facility (S3). Note that the position acquisition unit 53 continues to acquire the position information of the person P until the person P discards the object.

Next, the object image acquisition unit 54 of the waste disposal support device 5 attempts to acquire image information of the object held by the person P by performing image processing on the image information of the inside of the facility captured by the imaging device 3 (S4). If image information of the object cannot be acquired from the image information of the inside of the facility captured by the imaging device 3 (NO in S4), the waste disposal support device 5 returns to step S4.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 7, if image information of object O can be acquired from image information of the inside of the facility captured by the imaging device 3, the garbage determination unit 55 of the garbage disposal support device 5 compares the image information of object O acquired by the object image acquisition unit 54 with the garbage image information stored in the database 6 to determine whether or not the object O is garbage (S5).

At this time, as described above, the dust determination unit 55 of the dust disposal support device 5 compares the image information of the object O with the dust image information for each type stored in the database 6, and not only determines whether the object O is dust or not, but also determines the type of dust of the object O, as shown in FIG. 8.

Incidentally, FIG. 8 shows how object O is determined to be the first type of garbage D1 as a result of comparing image information of a first type of garbage D1 (e.g., non-burnable garbage) stored in database 6, image information of a second type of garbage D2 (e.g., plastic bottles), image information of a third type of garbage D3 (e.g., burnable garbage), and image information of object O.

If the object O is not garbage (NO in S5), the garbage disposal support device 5 returns to step S4. On the other hand, if the object O is garbage (YES in S5), the path generation unit 56 of the garbage disposal support device 5 identifies a disposal location for the object O based on the position information of the person P, the disposal location information stored in the database 6, and the facility passageway information stored in the database 6 (S6).

At this time, if the type of object O is determined as described above, the path generating unit 56 may identify the disposal location S by taking into account the type information of the object O and the disposal location information for each type of garbage stored in the database 6, as shown in FIG. 9.

Next, the transmitter/receiver 57 of the waste disposal support device 5 transmits the disposal location information to the mobile terminal 8 owned by the person P (S7). The mobile terminal 8 then displays the disposal location information of the object on the display device 81, and prompts the person P to input whether or not route guidance to the disposal location S is required (S8). However, the waste disposal support device 5 may transmit information to the mobile terminal 8 prompting the person P to input whether or not route guidance to the disposal location S is required, in addition to transmitting the disposal location information to the display device 4.

As shown in FIG. 10, when the person P inputs a response that route guidance is required via the support app on the mobile device 8 (for example, by touching the Route portion displayed on the display device 81 of the mobile device 8 in FIG. 10) (YES in S8), the route generation unit 56 of the waste disposal support device 5 generates route information from the current location of the person P to the disposal site S and transmits the route information to the display device 4 via the transmission/reception unit 57 (S9).

In FIG. 10, the left side shows the appearance of a person P holding a mobile terminal 8, and the right side shows the mobile terminal 8 when prompted to input whether or not route guidance is required. The display device 4 displays route information M as shown in FIG. 11. This allows the person P to recognize the location and route to the disposal location S of the object O. Here, as shown in FIG. 11, the route information M may show not only the guided route connecting the point where route guidance started and the disposal location S, but also the current location of the person P on the guided route.

At this time, the transceiver 57 transmits route information M to the display device 4 located closest to the person P in the direction of travel of the person P, among the multiple display devices 4, based on the position information of the person P within the facility, and causes the display device 4 to display the route information M as the person P moves. This makes it possible to display disposal location information and route information on the display device 4 in accordance with the movement of the person P.

The transmitter/receiver 57 may also transmit the route information M to the display device 81 of the mobile terminal 8 and cause the display device 81 to display the route information M as shown in FIG. 10. Note that the transmitter/receiver 57 may transmit the disposal location information or the route information M to either the display device 4 or the display device 81 of the mobile terminal 8.

Next, the waste disposal support device 5's waste image acquisition unit 58 acquires image information of the area around the waste disposal location S from the imaging device 3 arranged at the waste disposal location S so that the area can be imaged (S10). Here, if the person P inputs a response that route guidance is not required via the support app on the mobile terminal 8 (NO in S8), the waste disposal support device 5 proceeds to step S10.

Next, the disposal confirmation unit 59 of the waste disposal support device 5 confirms whether or not the person P has disposed of the object O at the disposal location S based on the acquired image information of the area around the disposal location S (S11). That is, the disposal confirmation unit 59 confirms whether or not the person P, who appears in the image around the disposal location S, has disposed of the object O at the disposal location S based on the position information of the person P, the image information of the object O, and the image information of the area around the disposal location S.

At this time, the disposal confirmation unit 59 can verify that the person who disposed of the object O is the person P who owns the mobile terminal 8 by comparing the facial image information of the person P with image information of the surroundings of the disposal location S and taking the comparison result into consideration.

If it is not possible to confirm that the person P has disposed of the object O in the disposal location S within the time period from when the transceiver unit 57 transmits the route information M to the display device 4 until a preset first time period has elapsed (NO in S11), the waste disposal support device 5 terminates the support process.

At this time, if the person P does not dispose of the object O at the disposal location S within a preset second time period after the transmission/reception unit 57 transmits the route information M to the display device 4, the disposal confirmation unit 59 may transmit, via the transmission/reception unit 57, to the mobile terminal 8, urging information to dispose of the object O. Here, the second time period may be shorter than the first time period.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 12, if it is confirmed that the object O has been disposed of in the disposal location (YES in S11), the reward granting unit 60 of the waste disposal support device 5 grants a reward to the person P (S12).

For example, as shown in FIG. 13, the reward granting unit 60 transmits reward information for adding points or the like to the assistance app of the mobile device 8 via the transceiver unit 57. At this time, the reward granting unit 60 may generate the reward information to be granted based on information on the type of garbage of the object O, image information within the facility, or weather information obtained from outside. Here, in FIG. 13, the left side shows the appearance of a person P who owns the mobile device 8, and the right side shows the mobile device 8 when points are granted.

In this way, the waste disposal support device 5 and waste disposal support method of this embodiment can enable a person P who is carrying an object O to recognize the location of the disposal place S for that object O. This reduces the burden on the person P who is disposing of the object O. In particular, if the person P requests route guidance, the route information M is displayed on the display device, further reducing the burden on the person P who is disposing of the object O.

Moreover, the waste disposal support device 5 and waste disposal support method of this embodiment transmit, if a person P who possesses an object O does not dispose of the object O at a disposal site S, reminder information to be sent to the mobile terminal 8 possessed by the person P to dispose of the object O, thereby preventing illegal dumping of the object O.

The waste disposal support device 5 and waste disposal support method of this embodiment also compare face image information of the person P who owns the mobile terminal 8 with image information of the surroundings of the disposal location S, and by taking the comparison result into account, confirm that the person who disposed of the object O is the person P who owns the mobile terminal 8, so that it is possible to reliably confirm whether the person P who owns the mobile terminal 8 disposed of the object O.

In addition, the garbage disposal support device 5 and garbage disposal support method of this embodiment display route information M on the display device 4 that is located closest to the person P carrying the object O in the direction of travel of the person P among the multiple display devices 4, and do not display route information on all display devices 4, thereby contributing to reducing power consumption.

In addition, the waste disposal support device 5 and waste disposal support method of this embodiment provide a reward to the person P who disposes of the object O in the disposal place S, so that the person P can enjoy disposing of the object O as if playing a game.

In addition, the garbage disposal support device 5 and garbage disposal support method of this embodiment determine the type of object O and identify a disposal location S according to the type of object O, so that the object O can be separated and disposed of.

This disclosure is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and may be modified as appropriate without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.

For example, the waste disposal support device 5 in the above embodiment includes an ID acquisition unit 51, a facial image acquisition unit 52, a discard image acquisition unit 58, a discard confirmation unit 59, and a reward grant unit 60, but some or all of the ID acquisition unit 51, the facial image acquisition unit 52, the discard image acquisition unit 58, the discard confirmation unit 59, and the reward grant unit 60 may be omitted.

For example, in the above embodiment, the route information M is generated after the person P is prompted to answer whether or not route guidance is required, but the route information M may be generated without prompting the person P to answer whether or not route guidance is required. In short, the waste disposal support device 5 in the above embodiment is only required to provide the route information M to the person P at least in response to a request from the person P, for example.

For example, the above embodiment is described on the assumption that a person moving around within a facility discards an object, but the embodiment can be carried out in a similar manner not only within a facility but also outdoors.

For example, in the above embodiment, the present disclosure has been described as a hardware configuration, but the present disclosure is not limited to this. Any processing in the present disclosure can also be realized by having a CPU (Central Processing Unit) execute a computer program.

The program can be stored and supplied to the computer using various types of non-transitory computer readable media. Non-transitory computer readable media include various types of tangible storage media. Examples of non-transitory computer readable media include magnetic recording media (e.g., flexible disks, magnetic tapes, hard disk drives), magneto-optical recording media (e.g., magneto-optical disks), CD-ROMs (Read Only Memory), CD-Rs, CD-R/Ws, and semiconductor memories (e.g., mask ROMs, PROMs (Programmable ROMs), EPROMs (Erasable PROMs), flash ROMs, and RAMs (random access memories)). The program may also be supplied to the computer by various types of transitory computer readable media. Examples of transitory computer readable media include electrical signals, optical signals, and electromagnetic waves. The transitory computer readable media can supply the program to the computer via wired communication paths such as electric wires and optical fibers, or wireless communication paths.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 Garbage disposal support system 2 Authentication device 21 ID reading unit 22 Imaging unit 3 Imaging device 4 Display device 5 Garbage disposal support device 51 ID acquisition unit 52 Face image acquisition unit 53 Position acquisition unit 54 Object image acquisition unit 55 Garbage determination unit 56 Path generation unit 57 Transmitting/receiving unit 58 Disposal image acquisition unit 59 Disposal confirmation unit 60 Reward granting unit 6 Database 7 Network 8 Portable terminal 81 Display device M Path information O Object P Person S Disposal location

Claims (5)

a location acquisition unit that acquires location information of a person carrying an object;
an object image acquisition unit that acquires image information of an object held by the person;
a dust determination unit that compares image information of the object held by the person with dust image information stored in a database to determine whether the object is dust;
a route generating unit that generates route information to a waste disposal site based on location information of the person and waste disposal site information stored in the database when the object is waste;
A transmission unit that transmits the route information to a display device;
A garbage disposal support device comprising: an ID acquisition unit that acquires ID information of a mobile terminal owned by the person;
a disposal image acquisition unit for acquiring image information of the disposal location;
a disposal confirmation unit that confirms whether the person has disposed of the object at the disposal location based on position information of the person and image information of the disposal location;
Equipped with
The garbage disposal support device of claim 1, wherein if the person does not dispose of the object at the disposal location within a predetermined time, the disposal confirmation unit sends prompting information to the mobile terminal via the transmission unit to prompt the person to dispose of the object. a face image acquisition unit that acquires face image information of the person by linking it with ID information of the mobile terminal,
The waste disposal support device according to claim 2 , wherein the disposal confirmation unit confirms whether the person has disposed of the object at the disposal location by taking into account the results of comparing the image information of the disposal location with the facial image information of the person. The waste disposal support device according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the transmission unit transmits the route information to the mobile terminal or a display device provided in a facility in which the waste disposal location is located. acquiring location information of a person carrying the object;
acquiring image information of an object carried by the person;
a step of comparing image information of the object held by the person with dust image information stored in a database to determine whether the object is dust;
If the object is garbage, generating route information to a garbage disposal location based on location information of the person and garbage disposal location information stored in the database;
transmitting the route information to a display device;
The waste disposal support method includes:

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