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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Minato-ku, JP;
Inventor:
Yuta Nakao, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/50 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6293 (2013.01); H04N 5/23219 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a subject area detector and a subject area determinator. The subject area detector is configured to perform subject detection processing to detect a subject area from an input image. The subject area determinator is configured to determine a final subject area by majority decision processing that is based on the subject areas detected in the subject detection processing performed a plurality of times.