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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2010
Woo-sung Kang, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Woo-Sung Kang, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Abstract
A method of detecting an object using a camera is provided, which includes dividing image data into pre-established areas, creating a detection window for each area, and calculating a histogram for each created detection window. Weights are determined for each pixel located within each detection window according to a determined similarity between a pre-stored histogram corresponding to the object and the histogram corresponding to the detection window. Each detection window is moved in a direction corresponding to the determined weights according to an average movement to converge the detection windows towards the object and a detection window is selected having a histogram with maximum similarity to the pre-stored histogram corresponding to the object from the detection windows converging to the object.