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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2019
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji, JP;
Wataru Oniki, Tokyo, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image-processing apparatus including: an image processor including circuitry or a hardware processor that operates under control of a stored program, the image processor being configured to execute processes including: a saliency-map calculating process that calculates saliency maps on a basis of at least one type of feature quantity obtained from an input image; a salient-region-identifying process that identifies a salient region by using the saliency maps; a salient-region-score-calculating process that calculates a score of the salient region by comparing a distribution of values of the saliency map in the salient region and a distribution of values of the saliency map in a region other than the salient region; and a saliency-evaluating process that evaluates the saliency of the salient region on a basis of the score.