Patent ID: 9396407
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06K

Claim Text:
1. An image recognition device for recognizing respective types of display objects appearing in an image, and obtaining, for each display object, one or more recognition candidates, each of the one or more recognition candidates having a degree of reliability that indicates a likelihood as a result of recognizing the types of the display objects, the image recognition device comprising a processing unit or a logic circuit forming: a change object selecting unit configured to select a change object from the display objects and determine that a type of each determined object is a type of one of the one or more recognition candidates having the highest degree of reliability, the change object being a target whose recognition result is to be modified and the determined objects being not the target whose recognition result is to be modified; a pair object selecting unit configured to select a pair object from the determined objects of the display objects, the pair object making a pair with the change object; and a recognition processing unit configured to modify the recognition result of the change object and identify the change object, on the basis of a pair information list stored in a storage unit, the pair information list indicating an object type associated with a type of the pair object.