Patent Document ID: 20150078666
Application ID: 14387922
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An object detection apparatus, comprising: an image input unit configured to receive an image; an image feature quantity extraction unit configured to extract a predetermined image feature quantity from the image to generate a feature-quantity extraction image; and a symmetry evaluation unit configured to set, for every processing target pixel in the feature-quantity extraction image, a symmetry evaluation area for evaluating symmetry in a first direction in the image in such a manner that the symmetry evaluation area is symmetrical with respect to a central axis in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and calculates a weighted value resulting from weighting a value indicating a correlation value by an image feature quantity for a group of pixels included in the symmetry evaluation area and located symmetrical with respect to the central axis, the correlation value indicating a correlation between image feature quantities of the group of pixels, while varying a size of the symmetry evaluation area to obtain a symmetry evaluation value indicating a degree of the symmetry in the first direction.