Detection range fitting of slit type Obrid-Sensor

As aging society problem goes severe, systems to confirm to safety of elders in daily life are expected to relieve burdensome safety confirmation tasks of care workers. In this paper, a sensor, which detects person localization without privacy offending, applying Obrid-Sensor is proposed. In the proposed design, the Obrid-Sensor is constructed with a line sensor and a slit to obtain one-dimensional brightness distribution. The proposed sensor is able to obtain one-dimensional brightness distribution that is approximately equal to integration value of each vertical pixel line of two-dimensional image. Meanwhile, the novel slit type Obrid-Sensor, which was constructed without Rod lens, is studied in this research. By employing the proposed sensor, the information of a subject's position and motion can be obtained without using two-dimensional texture image. The effectiveness of the proposed method is confirmed by experiments.