Patent ID: 11948091
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An image identification apparatus, comprising at least one circuit and/or processor, wherein the at least one circuit and/or processor is configured to function as:
an extraction unit configured to extract a feature value of an image from image data using a Neural Network (NN); and
a processing unit configured to identify the image based on the feature value extracted by the extraction unit,
wherein the NN comprises a plurality of calculation layers connected hierarchically,
wherein the NN comprises calculation layers for extracting a feature commonly used for identifying the image in respective regions of the image data,
wherein the NN includes a plurality of sub-neural networks for performing processing of calculation layers after a specific calculation layer among the calculation layers, and wherein mutually different data, each corresponding to a different sub-region of the image data, from an output of the specific calculation layer are respectively inputted to the plurality of sub-neural networks, and
wherein features of facial organs are extracted using the plurality of sub-neural networks.