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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2010
Applicant:
Ichiro Umeda, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Ichiro Umeda, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6255 (2013.01);
Abstract
There are provided a characteristic obtaining unit configured to obtain a subject characteristic including a characteristic of a subject, an image processing unit configured to generate a duplicate subject image by performing an image process to an image of the subject according to the subject characteristic obtained by the characteristic obtaining unit, and a learning unit configured to learn a matching dictionary by using the duplicate subject image generated by the image processing unit. Thus, it is possible to reduce the number of subject images necessary for the learning.