PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ridge region extracting device for automatically extracting a ridge region from an input image.;SOLUTION: The ridge region extracting device has a ridge region extracting part for specifying a ridge region in a digital image based on a correlation value indicating similarity between each of a plurality of regions of the digital image and each of a plurality of ridge template images associated with a ridge pattern.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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