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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2011
Fumi Kawai, Kanagawa, JP;
Keisuke Hayata, Kanagawa, JP;
Fumi Kawai, Kanagawa, JP;
Keisuke Hayata, Kanagawa, JP;
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
A feature amount calculation apparatus calculates a feature amount of a target object from image data, and is provided with: a feature value calculator that calculates an edge direction and edge magnitude as input image data pixel-unit feature values; a feature amount calculator that has an edge direction group calculator that calculates a group of edge directions, and a correlation value calculator that takes all pixels or predetermined pixels among a plurality of pixels used in feature value calculation as pixels subject to correlation value calculation and calculates an edge magnitude correlation value between the pixels subject to correlation value calculation for each feature value; and a histogram creator that counts feature amounts in a histogram for each correlation value, and creates a histogram as a feature vector.