Patent ID: 7801357

Claim:
An image processing device for specifying a region in an input image based on a correlation value with a model image; the image processing device comprising: an input image acquiring device for acquiring the input image made up of a plurality of pixels defined by three color variables in which each color is independent from each other; a determination target region setting device for setting a determination target region having a size equal to the model image acquired in advance with the respect to an entire region or a partial region of the input image acquired in the input image acquiring device; a first data array transformation device for transforming the plurality of predetermined color variables of the three color variables defining each pixel contained in the determination target region set in the determination target region setting device to a single first data array according to a predetermined rule; and a correlation value calculating device for calculating the correlation value between the first data array transformed in the first data array transformation device, and a single second data array transformed from the plurality of predetermined color variables out of the three color variables defining each pixel configuring the model image according to the predetermined rule.