Patent 11379999 was granted and assigned to NEC on July, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The feature extraction device according to one aspect of the present disclosure comprises: a reliability determination unit that determines a degree of reliability with respect to a second region, which is a region that has been extracted as a foreground region of an image and is within a first region that has been extracted from the image as a partial region containing a recognition subject, said degree of reliability indicating the likelihood of being the recognition subject; a feature determination unit that, on the basis of the degree of reliability, uses a first feature which is a feature extracted from the first region and a second feature which is a feature extracted from the second region to determine a feature of the recognition subject; and an output unit that outputs information indicating the determined feature of the recognition subject.