US 7,519,199 B2
Image processing method, image processor, photographic apparatus, image output unit and iris verify unit
Kenji Kondo, Kyoto (Japan); and Takeo Azuma, Kyoto (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/509,462
PCT Filed Apr. 01, 2004, PCT No. PCT/JP2004/004804
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Sep. 28, 2004,
PCT Pub. No. WO2004/090814, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 21, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-098812 (JP), filed on Apr. 02, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0226470 A1, Oct. 13, 2005
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 382—117  [340/5.83; 713/186] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing method comprising:
using an image processing apparatus to perform the following steps:
a first step of detecting an iris region of an eye of a person from an original image;
a second step of performing a predetermined image conversion to the iris region detected in the first step; and
a third step of outputting the original image the iris region of which the predetermined image conversion has been performed to;
wherein the predetermined image conversion is image conversion in which the iris region is divided into a plurality of portions and respective images of divided portions are re-arranged in a predetermined order, or at random, between an image of the iris region and another iris image, the another iris image having been processed so that at least one of size, color and shape thereof is the same as the image of the iris region.