Patent ID: 8538079

Claim:
An apparatus capable of detecting location of object contained in image data comprising: an image capturing module for capturing image data; a weight assignment module performing a weight assignment based upon a sub-image corresponding to a possible initial location of an object to be detected within the image data and priori information of the object to be detected, and calculating an initial gravity center of the object to be detected by utilizing the possible initial location; and a processing module performing a statistical analysis based upon a result of the weight assignment and the initial gravity center to calculate a possible location of the object to be detected and to obtain a gravity center coordinate, and determining whether or not a result of the statistical analysis matches a preset value; wherein if the result of the statistical analysis matches the preset value, the processing module generates an estimated result contained the possible location of the object to be detected; if the result of the statistical analysis does not matches the preset value, the processing module replaces the possible initial location with the possible location and calculates the possible location and the gravity center coordinate of the object to be detected once again.