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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2016
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoki Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Kubota, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomohiro Nakai, Kanagawa, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to an embodiment, an apparatus includes a calculator, an pixel evaluator, an accumulator, and an area evaluator. The calculator is configured to calculate a feature of an image for each pixel in image data. The pixel evaluator is configured to produce a score that evaluates the feature for each pixel. The accumulator is configured to calculate, for each pixel, a cumulative score obtained by accumulating all scores in an area including a minor angle formed by a half line in a first direction from the each pixel position and another half line in a second direction from the each pixel position. The area evaluator is configured to calculate an evaluation value that is a total of the scores in a quadrilateral area enclosed by two lines of the first direction and two lines of the second direction based on the cumulative scores at pixel positions at vertexes of the quadrilateral area.