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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2015
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/254 (2017.01); G06T 7/194 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0081 (2013.01); G06K 9/4609 (2013.01); G06K 9/4642 (2013.01); G06K 9/4652 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/194 (2017.01); G06T 7/254 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20021 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30232 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus comprises a video input unit, a region division unit configured to divide an image acquired by the video input unit into a plurality of regions each including pixels of similar attributes, a feature extraction unit configured to extract a feature from each divided region, a background model storage unit configured to store a background model generated from a feature of a background in advance, and a feature comparison unit configured to compare the extracted feature with a feature in the background model and determine for each of the regions whether the region is the background.