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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Yuusuke Nakano, Akashi, JP;
Inventor:
Yuusuke Nakano, Akashi, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K009/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In order to eliminate influence due to difference in the image pickup condition from an input image, an image processing apparatus includes a landmark point data input unit to input coordinates of a landmark point of a face image input through an image input unit and the grey-level value of texture of a face image, an inclination amount input unit to input an inclination amount of a face image in the depth direction, and an image space formation unit forming an image space by carrying out principal component analysis on a plurality of landmark point data and a plurality of inclination amounts with respect to a plurality of the input face images.