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- Patent Title: Image processing apparatus including similarity calculating unit, image pickup apparatus, and processing method for the apparatuses
- Patent Title (中): 图像处理装置,包括相似度计算单元,图像拾取装置和装置的处理方法
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Application No.: US12234997Application Date: 2008-09-22
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Publication No.: US08213690B2Publication Date: 2012-07-03
- Inventor: Miyuki Okada , Ryota Kosakai , Kaname Ogawa
- Applicant: Miyuki Okada , Ryota Kosakai , Kaname Ogawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2007-258621 20071002
- Main IPC: G06K9/62
- IPC: G06K9/62

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus includes an object-feature-information storage unit configured to store feature information of a predetermined object; an image inputting unit configured to input an image; an object detecting unit configured to detect an object contained in the input image; an attribute determining unit configured to determine an attribute of the detected object; a feature-point determining unit configured to determine, according to the determined attribute, positions of feature points to be set in the input image; and a similarity calculating unit configured to calculate, by comparing feature information stored in the object-feature-information storage unit to feature information at feature points set in the input image, similarity between an object corresponding to the feature information stored in the object-feature-information storage unit and the detected object.
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