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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2012
Kiyoshi Hoshino, Tsukuba, JP;
Kiyoshi Hoshino, Tsukuba, JP;
Other;
Abstract
Disclosed is a nail region detection device including: color camera; image data storage part; color specification conversion plotting part for converting captured image data from the RGB color specification system to the HLS color specification system; threshold value setting part for setting and varying a threshold value along the X axis with respect to a first plotting region; second plotting part for replotting in a two-dimensional planar second graph, plotting data items which are equal to or greater than the threshold value and detecting the physical quantity or its ratio in a second plotting region; repeat control part for repeating the processing for replotting the data items; nail determination part for determining, as a nail region, a second plotting region in which the gradient of the amount of variation in the physical quantity or its ratio is equal to or less than a predetermined value.