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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2013
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Akio Ohba, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Segawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsugo Inada, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirofumi Okamoto, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image storage sectionstores shot image data with a plurality of resolutions transmitted from an imaging device. Depth imageswith a plurality of resolutions are generated using stereo images with a plurality of resolution levels from the shot image data (S). Next, template matching is performed using a reference template imagethat represents a desired shape and size, thus extracting a candidate area for a target picture having the shape and size for each distance range associated with one of the resolutions (S). A more detailed analysis is performed on the extracted candidate areas using the shot image stored in the image storage section(S). In some cases, a further image analysis is performed based on the analysis result using a shot image with a higher resolution level (Sand S).