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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
May. 23, 2005
Yoshihiro Noguchi, Hachioji, JP;
Keiji Shimada, Sagamihara, JP;
Ken Ishihara, Atsugi, JP;
Asahi Kasei Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A face portion detection device, a behavior content classification device, a speech content classification device, a car navigation system, a face direction classification device, a face portion detection device control program, a behavior content classification device control program, a face portion detection device control method, and a behavior content classification device control method are provided for appropriately classifying a behavior content of the object person from a captured image including the face of the object person. A speech section detection deviceincludes an image capturing unit, a data storage unit, an image processing unit, a lip region detection unit, feature extraction unit, and a speech section detection unit. The lip region detection unituses a dedicated SVM to detect a lip region from a captured image, and the speech section detection unituses features of an image of a detected lip region and a dedicated HMM to detect a speech section.