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US-20260127884-A1 - INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

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Abstract

An information processing system includes a processor configured to: determine a scope of disclosure that determines to what extent personally identifiable information is to be included in information extracted from a captured image, according to a personal information protection level, which depends on an installation location of a camera that continuously captures images of a preset location, and an urgency of an emergency situation that has occurred; and transmit, to an external device, information extracted from an image captured by the camera with personally identifiable information included according to the determined scope of disclosure.

Inventors

  • Koichi Sato

Assignees

  • FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.

Dates

Publication Date
20260507
Application Date
20250512
Priority Date
20241105

Claims (8)

  1. 1 . An information processing system comprising: a processor configured to: determine a scope of disclosure that determines to what extent personally identifiable information is to be included in information extracted from a captured image, according to a personal information protection level, which depends on an installation location of a camera that continuously captures images of a preset location, and an urgency of an emergency situation that has occurred; and transmit, to an external device, information extracted from an image captured by the camera with personally identifiable information included according to the determined scope of disclosure.
  2. 2 . The information processing system according to claim 1 , further comprising a memory, wherein: the memory is configured to store the scope of disclosure in association with a combination of a personal information protection level, which depends on the installation location of the camera, and an urgency of an emergency situation that has occurred, and the processor is configured to determine the scope of disclosure by using the personal information protection level that depends on the installation location of the camera and the urgency of an emergency situation that has occurred.
  3. 3 . The information processing system according to claim 2 , wherein: the scope of disclosure is set such that the higher the personal information protection level, the narrower the scope of personal information to be included in information extracted from an image captured by the camera, and the higher the urgency of the emergency situation, the broader the scope of personal information to be included in information extracted from an image captured by the camera.
  4. 4 . The information processing system according to claim 2 , wherein: the scope of disclosure is set such that, as the scope of personal information to be included in information extracted from an image captured by the camera gets broader, the scope of disclosure gets broader gradually in the following order: skeletal information about a person in a captured image obtained by performing skeletal estimation of the person; identification information of only persons who have consented in advance to providing personal information; and identification information of both persons who have consented in advance to providing personal information and persons who have not.
  5. 5 . The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein: if an emergency situation occurs in which information extracted from a captured image is not transferable to a preset destination, the processor is configured to input information extracted from an image captured by the camera into a large language model that converts inputted information into text information and outputs the text information, and thereby acquire text information pertaining to image content of the captured image, and output the acquired text information as speech information via a speech outputter.
  6. 6 . The information processing system according to claim 5 , wherein: the processor is configured to perform skeletal estimation of a person in a captured image to detect whether or not the person is in an abnormal pose, if an emergency situation occurs in which information extracted from a captured image is not transferable to a preset destination and a person in the image is detected to be in an abnormal pose, the processor is configured to input information extracted from an image in which the person is detected to be in an abnormal pose into the large language model and thereby acquire text information pertaining to the state of the person in the captured image, and output the acquired text information as speech information via the speech outputter.
  7. 7 . An information processing method comprising: determining a scope of disclosure that determines to what extent personally identifiable information is to be included in information extracted from a captured image, according to a personal information protection level, which depends on an installation location of a camera that continuously captures images of a preset location, and an urgency of an emergency situation that has occurred; and transmitting, to an external device, information extracted from an image captured by the camera with personally identifiable information included according to the determined scope of disclosure.
  8. 8 . A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process comprising: determining a scope of disclosure that determines to what extent personally identifiable information is to be included in information extracted from a captured image, according to a personal information protection level, which depends on an installation location of a camera that continuously captures images of a preset location, and an urgency of an emergency situation that has occurred; and transmitting, to an external device, information extracted from an image captured by the camera with personally identifiable information included according to the determined scope of disclosure.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is based on and claims priority under 35 USC 119 from Japanese Patent Application No. 2024-193399 filed Nov. 5, 2024. BACKGROUND (i) Technical FieldThe present disclosure relates to an information processing system, an information processing method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium.(ii) Related Art Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2002-142214 discloses a video monitoring system configured to identify a personal portion in a captured image of a monitored person, composite an abstracted image of the identified personal portion with the original image, and transmit the composite image, thereby making it possible to monitor activity of the person while protecting the person's privacy. Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2023-006192 discloses a position information system capable of protecting privacy at normal times while also allowing for information about all portable terminals to be displayed in the event of an emergency. SUMMARY In recent years, network cameras are being used for applications such as detecting congestion conditions in restaurants, monitoring unmanned payment stores, detecting intruders for crime prevention, and detecting persons experiencing a fall or accident. Such network cameras are installed at preset locations and are configured to continuously transmit captured images to an external server. Furthermore, recent years have seen proposals for endpoint cameras that transmit image data scrubbed of privacy information to an external device when an image of a person is included in an image captured by performing image analysis involving artificial intelligence (AI) processing on the camera side. However, an issue with such endpoint cameras is that if captured images are always scrubbed of privacy information before being transmitted to an external destination, and an emergency situation such as a disaster or an accident occurs, the obtained information may be inadequate and not allow for a rapid response. On the other hand, with such endpoint cameras, if captured images are not always scrubbed of privacy information before being transmitted to an external destination, the divulging of privacy information is a concern, and personal privacy may not be protected to a sufficient degree. Aspects of non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to both protecting personal information and facilitating response in the event of an emergency situation in a configuration whereby information extracted from images continuously captured by a camera installed at a preset location is transferred to an external destination, even if the captured images contain images of persons. Aspects of certain non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure address the above advantages and/or other advantages not described above. However, aspects of the non-limiting embodiments are not required to address the advantages described above, and aspects of the non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure may not address advantages described above. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing system including a processor configured to: determine a scope of disclosure that determines to what extent personally identifiable information is to be included in information extracted from a captured image, according to a personal information protection level, which depends on an installation location of a camera that continuously captures images of a preset location, and an urgency of an emergency situation that has occurred; and transmit, to an external device, information extracted from an image captured by the camera with personally identifiable information included according to the determined scope of disclosure. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail based on the following figures, wherein: FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a system configuration of an information processing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure; FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of a camera 10 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure; FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of a camera 10 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure; FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of an urgency table stored in table information storage 34; FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a privacy consideration table stored in table information storage 34; FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a metadata generation policy table stored in table information storage 34; FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a metadata content determination table stored in table information storage 34; FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining a specific example of metadata generated by a metadata generator