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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2022
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiko Iwamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus acquires consecutive images in time order and performs image processing on the images. The imaging apparatus detects a first portion (a face or the like) of a subject in the images and detects a second portion (a torso or the like) of a subject in the images. The imaging apparatus uses a detection result obtained from a previously acquired image to perform processes of searching for a detection result obtained from a current image and classifying a detection result satisfying a condition for each of subjects. In the search process, a same portion search using detection results of the same portion from the previously acquired image and the current image is preferentially performed over a different portion search using detection results of different portions from the previously acquired image and the current image.