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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Nakamura, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyasu Kunieda, Yokohama, JP;
Tetsuya Suwa, Yokohama, JP;
Takashi Fujita, Kawasaki, JP;
Kiyoshi Umeda, Kawasaki, JP;
Yusuke Hashii, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Sakai, Chigasaki, JP;
Naoki Sumi, Kawasaki, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus extracts feature information from an object of image data. The apparatus registers the extracted feature information in a dictionary. The apparatus refers to the dictionary and determines a similarity between feature information registered in the dictionary and the extracted feature information. The apparatus does not use, of feature information to be registered in the dictionary, feature information not satisfying a predetermined evaluation criterion in similarity determination.