Patent ID: 6999623

Claim:
An image recognizing method of recognizing an object in an input image, said method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a learning image database storing a plurality of learning-local-segments provided by dividing a learning image into the plurality of learning-local-segments, the learning image including an image model of the object, the learning image database further storing coordinates of each of the learning-local segments; (b) dividing the input image into a plurality of local-segments; (c) selecting a local-segment from the plurality of local-segments; (d) extracting, from the learning image stored in the learning image database, a learning-local-segment which is most similar to the selected local-segment so as to relate the selected local-segment to the extracted learning-local segment; (e) estimating a position of the object in the input image from coordinates of the related local-segment and coordinates of the related learning-local-segment; (f) providing the estimated position with a score if the estimated position is not previously estimated, and adding a predetermined value to the score of the estimated position in the input image if the estimated position is previously estimated; (g) repeating steps (c), (d), (e), and (f) for each local-segment of the plurality of local-segments; and (h) judging that the object is present at the estimated position when the score to which the predetermined value is added is greater than a predetermined number for the estimated position.