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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2023
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Quoc Viet Pham, Yokohama, JP;
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a hardware processor. The processor receives input of an image and receives input of a query including one or more words. The processor calculates a word heat map for each of the words. The word heat map indicates a degree of relation between the word and each of subregions included in the image. The processor calculates weight of each of the words. The processor calculates, on the basis of the word heat maps and the weights, a query heat map indicating a degree of relation between the query and each of the subregions included in the image. The processor detects an image region from the image on the basis of the query heat map and outputs the image region. The image region corresponds to an object related to the query.