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Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 01, 2014
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yoko Fukata, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 101/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0044 (2013.01); G06K 9/00228 (2013.01); G06K 9/3241 (2013.01); H04N 5/23216 (2013.01); H04N 5/23219 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); H04N 2101/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image processing device including a subject frame setting section which, by operating a subject detector which detects a subject captured in an image, sets a subject frame which surrounds a predetermined range of the subject detected from the image; an acceptance frame setting section which sets an acceptance frame with a range wider than the subject frame according to the context of the image; a position detecting section which detects a specified position on an image which is specified by a user; and a recognizing section which recognizes a subject which is a tracking target based on the acceptance frame set by the acceptance frame setting section and the specified position detected by the position detecting section.


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