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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2017
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Masayuki Watanabe, Hiroshima, JP;
Naokazu Goda, Okazaki, JP;
Hidehiko Komatsu, Okazaki, JP;
Nanae Michida, Hiroshima, JP;
Atsuhide Kishi, Hiroshima, JP;
Kazuo Nishikawa, Hiroshima, JP;
Takahide Nouzawa, Hiroshima, JP;
MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
The present disclosure attempts to evaluate how the texture of an object is perceived based on visual features of the topological skeleton of the object. A camera Sobtains a color image by taking an image of an object, which serves as an evaluation target. Within the image obtained, a visual feature area, which is likely to strike a person's eye when the person claps his/her eyes on the object, and an intensity of a visual stimulus of each pixel of the visual feature area are extracted. Visual skeleton features of each pixel of the image are determined within a contour region which is composed of the visual feature areas extracted. The visual skeleton features determined are shown on a display.