Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Masayuki Mukai

Tetsuji Abe

Atsushi Tanaka

Kimihiko Higashio

Satoshi Matsuura

Akira Murakawa

Takeshi Imanaka

Yoshinori Harada

Akinobu Kanza

Shuhei Taguchi

Takao Shudo

Shinichi Ban

Kinya Hasegawa

Kagumi Moriwaki

Takahiro Fujii

Shuji Nakao

Nobuko Naito

Takuma Masuda

Miyuki Ono

Masako Inoue

Video camera display

In image data retrieval, image data that becomes the base of search is specified. When the search is to be carried out according to the distance from the image data on an image map, an automatic setting process of retrieval information is carried out. Here, a keyword, icon, chromaticity and the like of that image data are automatically set as retrieval information. The position of that image data on the image map becomes the center of a range when the ambiguity is set. By setting the ambiguity of the image map, keyword, icon, chromaticity, and the like in this state, the range of ambiguity is displayed, and image data within that range is automatically retrieved. As a result, analogous image data can be searched for according to subtle and ambiguous information or information that cannot be quantified.

Data administration apparatus that can search for desired image data

The invention provides a data retrieval apparatus which includes a sensibility database 2 for storing a plurality of title names, evaluation points on a plurality of evaluation items, and identifiers assigned to evaluators responsible for the evaluation points; an evaluation point input block 1 for accepting an evaluation on each of the plurality of evaluation items; an evaluation point correction process block 5 for correcting each of the evaluations accepted by the evaluation point input block 1 by using a plurality of evaluator difference data for each of the plurality of evaluators; a retrieval criteria generating process block 6 for selecting a title name from the sensibility database 2 on the basis of each corrected evaluation; and a data retrieval process block 7. With this data retrieval apparatus, flexible data retrieval can be conducted by just entering subjective evaluation points even for objects from which objective numeric values related to subjective evaluation criteria are difficult to extract.

Data retrieval apparatus, evaluation entry apparatus and sensibility

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Toyonaka, Japan

Masayuki Mukai