Patent ID: 9235751
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: G06K

Claim Text:
1. A person image processing apparatus comprising: a first standard storage that stores therein first standard information indicating a standard for determining whether a part of a person is displayed in the image data based on a face direction of a person displayed in the image data, and; at least one processor that inputs a plurality of pieces of image data captured at different times by an image capture module, that extracts a person display area showing a same person from each of the pieces of image data captured at the different times, that detects a feature point showing a feature of a part of a person from the person display area extracted from each of the pieces of image data, detect the face direction of the person included in the person display area and acquire reliability of the part shown in the feature point based on the face direction and the first standard information, the reliability of the part being adjusted based on whether the part included or not in the person display area due to the face direction, and that performs, when performing a correlation of the feature points included in the person display areas of the pieces of image data based on the reliability and generating person image data showing the same person using the correlation, weighting based on the reliability of the feature point included in the person display area.