Patent Document ID: 20070071359
Application ID: 11528393
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image collating apparatus for performing an image collation operation comprising: a storage device storing image data representing a sensing image of an object sensed by a sensor, template data representing a template image, and a program; and a processor receiving commands from said program for (a) detecting exclusion areas in said sensing image to be excluded from said image collation operation based on classification of image patterns, (b) determining whether or not said sensing image and said template image are derived from the identical object by performing template-matching operations to evaluate similarity between said template image and partial images of said sensing image in different levels, in said different levels said processor increasing the size of area covered by said partial image to be matched with said template image level by level, and at least in one level said processor performing the template-matching operation with respect to said partial image where said exclusion areas are excluded.