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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2019
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yu Narita, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus to perform tracking control of feature points estimated to a target of interest of a user. An image processing apparatus of the present invention acquires an image, extracts feature points of the image, tracks the feature points, estimates a target of interest in the image, calculates a matching degree indicating a degree of matching between the estimated target of interest and a distribution of the tracked feature points, and selects a feature point for which tracking will continue from the feature points according to the matching degree.