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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2015
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Image processing apparatus capable of detecting a person independently of the positional relationship between a camera and the person. The image processing apparatus () detects a human region included in an input image. The image processing apparatus () includes: head detection unit () for detecting head position of a person in an input image; determination unit () for determining a relative positional relationship between the head and another body part in the input image with use of feature amounts extracted from an image region around the head position detected by head detection unit (); and human detection unit () for setting at least one of the direction of searching for a human region and the region of searching for the human region in accordance with a relative relation determined by determination unit (), and detecting the human region from the input image.