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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yu Narita, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire, based on an input image, a plurality of resolution hierarchical images having resolutions that are different from one another, an extracting unit configured to extract a feature point in each of the plurality of resolution hierarchical images, a determining unit configured to determine a correlation among the plurality of feature points in the plurality of resolution hierarchical images using information on positions of the plurality of feature points in each resolution hierarchical image, and a selecting unit configured to select at least one processing object image to be processed with the feature point in the plurality of resolution hierarchical images, based on a determination result of the correlation.