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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2010
Applicant:
Fumitada Nagashima, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventor:
Fumitada Nagashima, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G06K 9/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image is input on a frame unit basis, the input image is sequentially reduced, and an object is detected from the input image and the reduced image at a frame rate according to a reduction ratio of the reduced image to the input image, thereby decreasing an amount of calculations necessary to detect the object from the image.