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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2021
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an analysis unit configured to analyze each image included in a first image group and a second image group, to output feature amounts, a first selection unit configured to select a type of feature amount to be used, based on the second image group, from among the feature amounts that are output by the analysis unit, a determination unit configured to determine a score reference that gives a score to an image, based on a feature amount of the selected type out of feature amounts of the second image group, a scoring unit configured to perform scoring of the first image group, based on the score reference and feature amounts of the first image group, and a second selection unit configured to select an image from the first image group, based on the score obtained by the scoring.