diff --git a/modules/features2d/src/blobdetector.cpp b/modules/features2d/src/blobdetector.cpp
index d07e8bae83c6aee44cca9cd45e165a0f9e4eb031..c2215cd57c702658481a286856a13e54dc59bec7 100644
--- a/modules/features2d/src/blobdetector.cpp
+++ b/modules/features2d/src/blobdetector.cpp
@@ -325,13 +325,19 @@ void SimpleBlobDetectorImpl::detect(InputArray image, std::vector<cv::KeyPoint>&
 
         std::vector < Center > curCenters;
         findBlobs(grayscaleImage, binarizedImage, curCenters);
+        if(params.maxThreshold - params.minThreshold <= params.thresholdStep) {
+            // if the difference between min and max threshold is less than the threshold step
+            // we're only going to enter the loop once, so we need to add curCenters
+            // to ensure we still use minDistBetweenBlobs
+            centers.push_back(curCenters);
+        }
         std::vector < std::vector<Center> > newCenters;
         for (size_t i = 0; i < curCenters.size(); i++)
         {
             bool isNew = true;
             for (size_t j = 0; j < centers.size(); j++)
             {
-                double dist = norm(centers[j][ centers[j].size() / 2 ].location - curCenters[i].location);
+                double dist = norm(centers[j][centers[j].size() / 2 ].location - curCenters[i].location);
                 isNew = dist >= params.minDistBetweenBlobs && dist >= centers[j][ centers[j].size() / 2 ].radius && dist >= curCenters[i].radius;
                 if (!isNew)
                 {
diff --git a/modules/features2d/test/test_blobdetector.cpp b/modules/features2d/test/test_blobdetector.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..56b7145862052cfe6319f5672d6818d93607afcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/features2d/test/test_blobdetector.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+// This file is part of OpenCV project.
+// It is subject to the license terms in the LICENSE file found in the top-level directory
+// of this distribution and at http://opencv.org/license.html.
+
+#include "test_precomp.hpp"
+
+namespace opencv_test { namespace {
+TEST(Features2d_BlobDetector, bug_6667)
+{
+    cv::Mat image = cv::Mat(cv::Size(100, 100), CV_8UC1, cv::Scalar(255, 255, 255));
+    cv::circle(image, Point(50, 50), 20, cv::Scalar(0), -1);
+    SimpleBlobDetector::Params params;
+    params.minThreshold = 250;
+    params.maxThreshold = 260;
+    std::vector<KeyPoint> keypoints;
+
+    Ptr<SimpleBlobDetector> detector = SimpleBlobDetector::create(params);
+    detector->detect(image, keypoints);
+    ASSERT_NE((int) keypoints.size(), 0);
+}
+}} // namespace