PURPOSE: To provide a picture recognition device which can securely recognize an unspecified object under' the complicated background of outdoor monitor or the like.
CONSTITUTION: A detection means 2 which time-sequentially and sequentially detects at least a mobile object between the pictures at every other picture from the plural pictures 1 which are continuously image-picked up, a judgement means 6 judging whether a detected object continuously moves or not according to whether the detected object is overlapped or not by overlapping the pictures between the plural detected pictures 3 detected by the detection means 2 and an operation means removing the object moving at a prescribed position by subtracting the detected picture before then from the detected picture at prescribed time and detecting the object which continuously moves in a prescribed direction are provided. A moving part at the background without directivity is removed and the object moving in the prescribed direction is recognized.
INADA AKIO
SHIMOKAWA KATSUYUKI
