Patent ID: 8363893

Claim:
An object detection control apparatus to control a plurality of object detecting units to perform an object detection processing on an image, the object detection control apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one recording medium having encoded thereon executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to execute a method, the method comprising: selecting a selected object detecting unit of a plurality of object detecting units to which to allocate the object detection processing, each object detecting unit of the plurality of object detecting units being configured to perform the object detection processing on image data of a transfer image area, the image data of the transfer image area being image data that is at least a portion of the image and that is to be made available to the selected object detecting unit for the selected object detecting unit to perform the object detection processing; generating a size of the transfer image area based at least in part on a detection area for the selected object detecting unit to which the detection processing is allocated, the detection area identifying an area of the image on which the selected object detecting unit is to perforin the object detection process, the area being at least a portion of the image; and generating a first position, indicating a first pixel address of the image and serving as a reference for the transfer image area, based at least in part on the size of the transfer image area and generating a second position indicating a second pixel address of the image and serving as a reference for the detection area of the selected object detecting unit.