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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2015
Omron Corporation, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP;
OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus for extracting an area of a detection target from an image includes an image input section that acquires an image, an image generation section that generates a plurality of images with different resolutions from the image, and a segmentation section that performs segmentation using the plurality of images with the different resolutions. The segmentation section segments an image with a low resolution and then segmenting an image with a high resolution using, as a processing target area, an area in the image with the high resolution corresponding to an area near a boundary resulting from processing of the segmentation of the image with the low resolution.