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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Toby Walker, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Matsubara, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/222 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/222 ;
Abstract
In step S the image-voice processing apparatus divides segments into sub-segments that will be candidates for r segments, and in step S groups together similar sub-segments out of the sub-segments obtained. And in step S the image-voice processing apparatus selects object groups for signatures, and then after selecting in step S a r segment from each of the groups selected, computes in step S the weight for each of the r segments obtained.