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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Masahito Niikawa, Sakai, JP;
Kenji Nakamura, Takatsuki, JP;
Yasuhiro Morimoto, Takatsuki, JP;
Katsuyuki Nanba, Sakai, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/60 ; H04N 5/76 ; H04N 3/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/60 ; H04N 5/76 ; H04N 3/20 ;
Abstract
An image retrieval system for retrieving a plurality of images recorded in a recording medium, records data concerning operations and processing for image files as history data. A desired image is found based on the history data. Further, an image is found based on a combination of photographing condition in a photographing operation, and the history data of the operations executed for the image file. Therefore, the image retrieval system allows the image to be efficiently, exactly, and conveniently found without a trouble of assigning key information to the image file.