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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2013
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/183 (2013.01); G06K 9/00342 (2013.01); G06K 9/00771 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image of each frame output from an image sensing device is sequentially acquired. A situation appearing in the image is recognized through recognition processing performed on the image, and, if the recognized situation is a prescribed situation, an object of a type related to the prescribed situation is detected from the image and from an image of each frame containing the image. A detection position, in the image, of each object is used to determine whether the objects come in contact with each other in a physical space.