Object detection

摘要

Object detection apparatus in which images from an ordered series of images are processed to detect objects, each image having an associated image period, the detection of objects in a whole image requiring a set of processing tasks to be carried out comprises means for executing subsets of the set of processing tasks during respective image periods associated with a group of two or more images from the ordered series; the subsets being arranged so that substantially all of the set of processing tasks are carried out in the course of the image periods associated with the group of images and that each such task is carried out with respect to at least one respective image in the group of images. <IMAGE>