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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2012
Shigeru Tatsuzawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shunsuke Ichihara, Chiba, JP;
Makoto Masuda, Saitama, JP;
Hiroyuki Hota, Saitama, JP;
Kouhei Endou, Gunma, JP;
Kenji Murakami, Saitama, JP;
Shigeru Tatsuzawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shunsuke Ichihara, Chiba, JP;
Makoto Masuda, Saitama, JP;
Hiroyuki Hota, Saitama, JP;
Kouhei Endou, Gunma, JP;
Kenji Murakami, Saitama, JP;
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus including a region-of-interest decision unit that identifies an interest space region in which an object to be analyzed is likely to be present based on a distance image, which is shape information of an object space corresponding to a captured image to be analyzed acquired by a distance image sensor, to identify a region of interest in the captured image corresponding to the interest space region and an image analysis unit that performs different image analyses for the region of interest and other image regions.