| 摘要 |
The present invention provides a technique to improve reliability of a segmentation result for a subject image, which is obtained a colored object with the possibility of change in color for each individual items. In a specified color space, existing color areas indicating ranges of colors containable in the subject image when the colored object has an allowable range of color, and non-existent color areas for outside the existing color areas are set. Then, subject image segmentation is performed by classifying colors of pixels of the subject image into the existing color areas and the non-existent color area. |
