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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2021
Canon U.s.a., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
Yevgeniy Gennadiy Guyduy, Bellmore, NY (US);
Canon U.S.A., Inc., Melville, NY (US);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus is provided which obtains and provides image data at a first scale as input to a first classifier trained based on images in the first scale to classify the image data in a first class or a second class, outputs, from the first classifier, activation map data and image array data, obtains at least target region of the image data at the first scale based on output of a second classifier that uses the activation map data and image array data from the first classifier, maps the at least one target region to image data at a second scale, extracts target region image data from each of the at least one target region of the image data at the second scale and classifies, as a first type of image or a second type of image.