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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
May. 08, 2020
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Noboru Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Yadong Pan, Tokyo, JP;
Ryo Kawai, Tokyo, JP;
Jianquan Liu, Tokyo, JP;
Shoji Nishimura, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A search information acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pieces of search pose information generated for each of a plurality of target images and indicate a pose of a person included in the target image. An exclusion information acquisition unit acquires exclusion pose information indicating a pose of a person included in an exclusion query image. The exclusion query image is an image to be a query of an image needed to be excluded from a search result, and includes at least a person. An exclusion score computation unit computes an exclusion score for each of the plurality of pieces of search pose information. The exclusion score indicates a degree of similarity of the search pose information to the exclusion pose information. An exclusion image selection unit selects, from the plurality of target images by using the exclusion score, an image needed to be excluded from a search result.