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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Saruta, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In order to precisely identify a class relating to classification of an object at each of regions of an image, an image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image capturing information when the object has been captured, an estimation unit configured to estimate distribution relating to a degree of existence of each class which indicates classification of the object at each of predetermined regions of a captured image of the object based on the image capturing information acquired by the acquisition unit, and an identification unit configured to identify the class at each of the regions based on distribution information indicating the distribution estimated by the estimation unit and image information relating to the captured image.