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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1998
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
Rectangles R(i−1), R(i), and R(i+1) are set to surround three temporally continuous frames f(i−1), f(i), and f(i+1). Difference images fd(i−1, i) and fd(i, i+1) are obtained on the basis of the inter-frame differences between the current frame f(i) and the first reference frame f(i−1) and between the current frame f(i) and the second reference frame (i+1). Background regions are respectively determined for polygons Rd(i−1, i)=R(i−1) or R(i) and Rd(i, i+1)=R(i) or R(i+1), and the remaining regions are selected as object region candidates. By obtaining the intersection between these object region candidates, an object region O(i) on the current frame f(i) can be extracted.