ROAD DETERIORATION DIAGNOSING DEVICE, ROAD DETERIORATION DIAGNOSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

A road deterioration diagnosing device acquires an image capturing a road and a date and a time when the image was captured as well as a location and a direction in which the image was captured, detects deterioration of the road surface shown in the acquired image, calculates a direction in which a shadow of a building may be formed over the road surface shown in the image using the date, the time, the location, and the direction, and determines a possibility of erroneous detection of the deterioration on the basis of the direction in which the road surface deteriorates and the direction in which the shadow may be formed.