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<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely detect object patterns in areas where face candidates overlap one another. Ž<P>SOLUTION: An image processing method extracts, from an image, predetermined partial areas for collating with the object patterns to determine whether or not the extracted partial areas are the object patterns, and then, calculates the reliability of the objects in the extracted partial areas. Next, the method determines whether or not a plurality of determined partial areas include areas where the partial areas overlap one another in the image. If it is determined that the extracted partial areas include partial areas where two partial areas overlap each other, the method deletes one partial area of which the value of the calculated reliability of the object is smaller from the object pattern candidates and outputs the other partial area, which is the object pattern candidate remaining after the deletion, as a representative pattern. Ž<P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT Ž
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