Patent ID: 7660467
Filing Date: 2010-02-09
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An image extracting apparatus, provided with a processor and a storage under control of said processor, that extracts a candidate image to be output as a representative image from a plurality of candidate images, wherein said processor implements functional sections, comprising: an object extracting section that extracts an object from a plurality of candidate images arranged in time series, each of the plurality of candidate images being a moving-image constituting image included in a moving image; an object acceleration computing section that computes acceleration of each object of the plurality of candidate images relative to a background based on a change of position of the object extracted from said object extracting section in the plurality of candidate images arranged in time series; a timing specifying section that specifies a timing at which the acceleration of the object extracted by said object extracting section from the moving-image constituting images relative to the background, which is computed by said object acceleration computing section, is larger than a predetermined reference acceleration based on a change of position in the plurality of moving-image constituting images included in the moving image; and a representative image extracting section that extracts, as a representative image, a moving-image constituting image in a time range including the timing specified by said timing specifying section.