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| 20080304749 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. An evaluation information storage section stores a plurality of evaluation information sets for determinations as to whether an image subjected to determination is a target image. An image input section inputs an image. A face detection section detects a face included in the input image. A normalization section normalizes a face image that is an image segment including the detected face so that the face image has a predetermined resolution. A feature extraction section extracts a feature amount of the normalized face image. An attribute information generation section makes a determination on the basis of the extracted feature amount and each evaluation information set as to whether the face image is the target image associated with the evaluation information set, and generating an attribute information block related to the face included in the face image as the result of determination. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090010501 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus for processing an image including an image of a face includes: a normalization unit configured to normalize the image including the image of a face so that the size of the face becomes a predetermined face size; a detection area setting unit configured to set an area smaller than the image normalized by the normalization unit as a detection area in which a position of a face part of the face is detected; and a detection unit configured to detect the position of the face part in the detection area set by the detection area setting unit. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090046900 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus for processing an image, includes a face detector for detecting an image of a face of a subject contained in a captured image, based on image information of the captured image supplied from an imaging unit, a face feature detector for detecting a face feature contained in the face image, based on image information of the face image detected by the face detector, a normalizer for normalizing the face image detected by the face detector, based on a detected position of the face feature detected by the face feature detector and generating a normalized face image, and a face expression detector for detecting a face expression contained in the face image, based on image information of the normalized face image generated by the normalized. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090074313 | Encoding Method, Encoding Device, Encoding Process Program, and Recording Medium on Which Encoding Process Program Is Recorded - The present invention is applicable to video cameras, for example. The present invention encodes input image data D | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090087038 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE APPARATUSES, AND PROGRAM FOR THE APPARATUSES - An image processing apparatus includes an object-feature-information storage unit configured to store feature information of a predetermined object; an image inputting unit configured to input an image; an object detecting unit configured to detect an object contained in the input image; an attribute determining unit configured to determine an attribute of the detected object; a feature-point determining unit configured to determine, according to the determined attribute, positions of feature points to be set in the input image; and a similarity calculating unit configured to calculate, by comparing feature information stored in the object-feature-information storage unit to feature information at feature points set in the input image, similarity between an object corresponding to the feature information stored in the object-feature-information storage unit and the detected object. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090115864 | IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes the following elements. An operation acceptance unit accepts an operation input to specify an attribute associated with a predetermined object. An imaging unit converts incoming light from a subject into a captured image. An object detection unit detects one or more objects included in the captured image. An attribute determination unit determines an attribute of each detected object. A priority object determination unit determines at least one of the detected objects as a priority object on the basis of the specified attribute and the determined attribute. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100067742 | OBJECT DETECTING DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS, OBJECT DETECTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An object detecting device includes a calculating unit configured to calculate gradient intensity and gradient orientation of luminance for a plurality of regions in an image and calculate a frequency distribution of the luminance gradient intensity as to the calculated luminance gradient orientation for each of the regions, and a determining unit configured to determine whether or not an identified object is included in the image by comparing a plurality of frequency distributions calculated for each of the regions. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100177206 | Object detecting apparatus, image pickup apparatus, object detecting method, and program - An object detecting apparatus includes an evaluation information storage unit that stores evaluation information used for computing an evaluation value for each of a plurality of objects, where the evaluation value is used for evaluating which one of the objects is contained in an image, a determination information storage unit that stores determination information used for determining whether the object is contained in an image in association with each of the objects, a computing unit that computes the evaluation value for each of the objects by extracting features from a plurality of areas of the image using the evaluation information and comparing two of the extracted features, and a determination unit that determines whether the object is contained in the image using the determination information associated with the object relating to the evaluation value that satisfies a predetermined condition among the evaluation values computed for the objects. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100177957 | Object detecting device, learning device, object detecting method, and program - An object detecting device includes a comparing unit to extract feature amounts for two regions on a determining object image and compare a feature amount based on the two feature amounts extracted; and a computing unit to select one of two values having different absolute values according to the comparison result, and compute an evaluation value to determine whether or not an object is included in the determining object image, by performing computation with the selected value. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20110055766 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus may control display of a GUI image including indexes that allow a user to select the entirety or part of an image content piece. The information processing apparatus may include a controller configured to control display of a first GUI image including an index of each of at least one image content piece, and to control a display of a second GUI image including face thumbnail images, which serve as indexes that allow the user to select the entirety or part of an image content piece corresponding to an index selected from the first GUI image by the user, the face thumbnail images corresponding to faces detected from the entirety or part of the image content piece. | 03-03-2011 |
