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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2015
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Bin Chen, Machida, JP;
Yoshihiko Murakawa, Yokohama, JP;
FUJITSU LIMITED, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus generates a hypothesis group for marker areas and marker identifiers by randomly scattering hypotheses including the marker areas and the marker identifiers in a range in which the hypotheses can be made, and evaluates each of the hypotheses for the marker areas and the marker identifiers using image information on markers, when a variance value of a marker area in a hypothesis including a marker identifier satisfying a predetermined condition is a predetermined threshold or larger, and replicates a hypothesis extracted from the hypothesis group, based on the evaluation result, and reconstructs the hypothesis group by changing the replicated hypothesis based on a degree of similarity between markers and on a neighborhood probability of a marker, and causes repetitive execution of the evaluating, the replicating, and the reconstructing until the variance value becomes smaller than the threshold in the reconstructed hypothesis group.