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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1996
Tadaaki Kitamura, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Yoshiki Kobayashi, Hitachi, JP;
Kunio Nakanishi, Hitachi, JP;
Masakazu Yahiro, Hitachi, JP;
Yoshiyuki Satoh, Hitachi, JP;
Toshiro Shibata, Urawa, JP;
Takeshi Horie, Kashiwa, JP;
Katsuyuki Yamamoto, Matsudo, JP;
Masao Takatoo, Katsuta, JP;
Haruki Inoue, Katsuta, JP;
Kazuyoshi Asada, Hitachi, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object recognition system using the image processing in which an area having a unique feature is extracted from an input image of an object, the unique image is registered in a shade template memory circuit as a shade template, the input image is searched for an image similar to the shade template registered by a shade pattern matching circuit, the position of an object is determined for each template, the speed and direction of movement of the object is determined from the positional information, and the results thereof are integrated by a separation/integration circuit, thereby recognizing the whole of the moving object.