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Image processing apparatus

US8478001B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 25, 2011
Grant dateJul 2, 2013
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Expiry dateAug 25, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06V10/245
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image processing program causes a computer to execute processing of obtaining an image, photographed with a camera, of markers disposed in a real space, creating vectors from the camera and to the markers, selecting a reference marker from the markers, calculating a inner product of the vectors, canceling use of a negative sign included in an equation that obtains a distance between the camera and a remaining marker, creating sign patterns based on to the cancelled remaining markers, setting a first distance between the reference marker and the camera, calculating candidates of a distance between the camera and the remaining markers, calculating error between an inter-marker distance in a real space and the sign patterns, calculating other error when a second distance is set, determining the distance according to the error and the other error, and calculating a position and pose of the camera according to the determined distance.

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