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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2023
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Noboru Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Tingting Dong, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To reduce a load on a computer required for processing of searching for a desired person from among a plurality of images, the present invention provides an information processing apparatusincluding: an acquisition unitthat acquires a query indicating a person attribute; and a search unitthat refers to a reference image database in which a plurality of reference images are grouped by putting together into reference images including an identical person and clustered, for each group, by putting together those having a similar predetermined attribute, selects, for each group, a representative reference image from one or each of a plurality of clusters, and collates the selected representative reference image with the query, based on the person attribute.