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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2010
Applicants:
Koichi Magai, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotaka Shiiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuyo Ikeda, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/4671 (2013.01);
Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes: a calculation unit adapted to analyze an image and calculate an intermediate value; a setting unit adapted to set a feature extraction region in the image, using the intermediate value; and an extraction unit adapted to extract a local feature of the feature extraction region, reusing the intermediate value used by the setting unit.