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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 23, 2018
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Keita Nakagomi, Kyoto, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/33 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0016 (2013.01); G06T 7/33 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10076 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30168 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit configured to obtain a time-sequential image obtained in order of a start image, a plurality of intermediate images, and an end image, an image selecting unit configured to select a plurality of combinations of images including the start image, at least one of the plurality of intermediate images, and the end image, and a conformable image determining unit configured to determine a conformable combination from among the plurality of combinations based on image quality of the images included in each of the plurality of combinations and a similarity between the images included in each of the plurality of combinations.


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