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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2006
Applicants:
Hiroaki Suzuki, Nagoya, JP;
Takeo Iwasaki, Nagoya, JP;
Inventors:
Hiroaki Suzuki, Nagoya, JP;
Takeo Iwasaki, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing device comprises: plane conversion means which receives a subject image in which a subject having a particular shape has been captured and shape information about three-dimensional shape of the subject from the outside and converts the subject image into a plane image in which the subject is viewed from a prescribed direction based on the shape information; and in-plane position detection means which recognizes a subject area in the plane image as an area representing the subject and determines a position of the subject in the plane image.