Patent ID: 8306318
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a feature vector computation unit that computes a feature vector with elements of a physical quantity against respective different feature amounts, for each of a plurality of partitioned regions partitioned from an image subject to processing; a feature relative vector computation unit that computes a feature relative vector expressing computation values computed from respective combinations of the same or different elements across feature vectors computed by the feature vector computation unit for each partitioned region, and computation values computed from respective combinations of different elements within one of the feature vectors; and an image processing unit that, based on the feature relative vector computed by the feature relative vector computation unit, discriminates whether or not the image subject to processing is an image in which a processing target object appears, or detects a region from the image subject to processing in which the processing target object appears.