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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2009
Applicants:
Masatoshi Matsuhira, Suwa, JP;
Kosuke Shingai, Suwa, JP;
Makoto Oyanagi, Suwa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 3/4038 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus synthesizing a plurality of sub-images in a panoramic way to create a panoramic image includes a face recognizing unit recognizing a person's face from a plurality of the sub-images, a sampling image selecting unit selecting a sub-image which has a face recognized by the face recognizing unit, out of a plurality of the sub-images as a sampling image, a sampling unit sampling a plurality of pixels from the selected sampling image.