Patent Document ID: 20140321759
Application ID: 14254133
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An object detection apparatus comprising: a storage section storing a plurality of selection patterns as combinations of one of a plurality of recognition dictionaries and one of a plurality of image recognition algorithms, each of the recognition dictionaries describing reference data of a detection object, each of the recognition algorithms being for recognizing the detection object within an input image based on the recognition dictionaries; a specifying means for specifying at least one of a distance from a position at which the input image is taken to a target corresponding to the detection object within the input image and a state of light of the input image; a selection means for selecting one from the plurality of the selection patterns based on at least one of the distance and the state of the light specified by the specifying means; and a detection means for detecting the detection object within the input image by performing an image recognition process using the image recognition dictionary and the image recognition algorithm included in the selection pattern selected by the selection means.