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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Suzuki, Musashino, JP;
Takehito Miyazawa, Musashino, JP;
Motohiro Takagi, Musashino, JP;
Kazuya Hayase, Musashino, JP;
Tokinobu Mitasaki, Musashino, JP;
Atsushi Shimizu, Musashino, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A position determination apparatus for determining, from a first image that is an image including at least a desired first subject, a position of the desired first subject, includes: a feature amount acquisition unit that acquires a first feature amount representing a predetermined feature of the first image; an estimation unit in which a second feature amount representing the predetermined feature obtained from a second image including a second subject is associated with a selected feature map that is a feature map corresponding to the second subject among a plurality of feature maps that are a set of feature maps that are maps representing features of the second image; an estimated first feature map that is estimated by the estimation unit to be associated with the first feature amount: and a position determination unit that determines the position of the desired first subject using the estimated first feature map.