The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2012
Applicant:
Yasuo Fukuda, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yasuo Fukuda, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/54 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6257 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to scan an input image and each of images at different resolutions, which are generated from the input image, by a predetermined-sized window to detect an object in the image, a storage unit configured to store a detection result of the detection unit, and a control unit configured to, if there is no free space in the storage unit to store a new detection result of the detection unit, store the new detection result instead of a detection result of an image at higher resolution than resolution of an image from which the new detection result is acquired.