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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2015
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A feature amount generation device includes a feature point detecting unit which detects a feature point from an input image, a pixel information generating unit which generates pixel information from pixel values of the surroundings of the feature point in the input image, a feature point pixel information distribution generating unit which generates a first distribution of pixel information of a first region including the feature point, a sub-feature point detecting unit which detects sub-feature points that are feature points in the surroundings of the feature point, a sub-feature point pixel information distribution generating unit which generates second distributions of pixel information of second regions including the sub-feature points, and a feature amount generating unit which generates a feature amount at the feature point based on the first distribution and the second distributions.