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Image processing device and method

  • US 9,449,222 B2
  • Filed: 03/31/2015
  • Issued: 09/20/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image processing device, comprising:

  • an acquiring unit for acquiring an image containing an object image;

    a calculating unit for calculating one or more candidate object image areas based on color and edge characteristics of the image;

    a selecting unit for selecting, based on a predetermined color model, a candidate object image area with a maximal similarity to the predetermined color model as a first object image area from the one or more candidate object image areas, where the maximal similarity is larger than or equal to a similarity threshold;

    a determining unit for determining, based on color characteristics of the one or more candidate object image areas, another of the one or more candidate object image areas as one of a non-object image area and a second object image area with the first object image area;

    a creating unit for creating, for each of the first and second object image areas, an adaptive color model; and

    a detecting unit for detecting, based on the respective adaptive color model, an area containing the object image in the each of the first and second object image areas.

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