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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2004
Simon Dominic Haynes, Basingstoke, GB;
Ratna Rambaruth, Guildford, GB;
Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Winchester, GB;
Jonathan Living, Nr. Stourbridge, GB;
Simon Dominic Haynes, Basingstoke, GB;
Ratna Rambaruth, Guildford, GB;
Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Winchester, GB;
Jonathan Living, Nr. Stourbridge, GB;
Sony United Kingdom Limited, Weybridge, GB;
Abstract
A system and associated methodology of detecting objects using multiple sets of object probability data relating to different respective expected object sizes relative to the image size. A list of locations in an image where an object has been detected is stored, the list defining a probability data set and a probability value for each detected object. Object locations in a set of object probability data as locations at which a local maximum probability value exceeds a threshold probability value are detected and, if that location is substantially similar to a location previously stored in the list, where the local maximum probability value exceeds that relating to the previously stored location. The storing is repeated successively in respect of each set of probability data.