Patent ID: 8971585
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06K,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a memory; a processor coupled to the memory which executes the following: inputting a moving image; detecting at least one object from a moving image input; tracing an object detected from a moving image input; acquiring a motion of the object and a moving image interval in which the object is present in the moving image based on a tracing result; extracting a motion of an image capturing apparatus that captured the moving image; calculating, if motions and moving image intervals have been acquired as to a plurality of objects and there is an overlap in the moving image intervals, for each of a plurality of objects in the overlapped interval, a tracking amount by which the image capturing apparatus tracks an object based on motion of each of the plurality of objects and the motion of the image capturing apparatus extracted; and determining which of the plurality of objects is a key object by comparing tracking amounts calculated for the plurality of objects.