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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
May. 24, 1999
Chisato Numaoka, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus and method and a provision medium arranged to perform image learning and image recognition in a short time. An image difference detector computes a differential image between an image stored in a frame buffer and an image stored in another frame buffer, and also computes the centroid of the differential image. A information collector forms RGB histogram data and binary data of a peripheral area about the centroid obtained by the image difference detector. A category former formed by a Kohonen network forms a category based on the RGB histogram data and binary data. A category statistic processor performs statistical processing of the categories output from the category former, and outputs a processing result to a learner formed by a recurrent neural network.