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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2012
Zhongyang Huang, Singapore, SG;
Yang Hua, Singapore, SG;
Shuicheng Yan, Singapore, SG;
Qiang Chen, Singapore, SG;
Ryouichi Kawanishi, Kyoto, JP;
Zhongyang Huang, Singapore, SG;
Yang Hua, Singapore, SG;
Shuicheng Yan, Singapore, SG;
Qiang Chen, Singapore, SG;
Ryouichi Kawanishi, Kyoto, JP;
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
An image recognition device that improves the accuracy of generic object recognition compared with conventional technologies by reducing the influence of the position, size, background clutter and the like of an object that is targeted to be recognized in the input image by the generic object recognition. The image recognition device performs a generic object recognition and includes: a segmenting unit configured to segment an input image into a plurality of regions in accordance with meanings extracted from content of the input image; a generating unit configured to compute feature data for each of the plurality of regions and generate feature data of the input image reflecting the computed feature data; and a checking unit configured to check whether or not a recognition-target object is present in the input image in accordance with the feature data of the input image.