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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2003
Akihiro Kohno, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Kohno, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
It is an object of this invention to easily search many photographed images for a desired image. In order to achieve this object, an image processing apparatus for processing a plurality of photographed images and image information having attributes attached to the plurality of images includes a similarity determination device which determines similarities between a query image and the plurality of images, an attribute comparing device which compares an attribute of the query image and attributes of the plurality of images, and a weighting device which weights a similarity determination result obtained by the similarity determination device on the basis of the comparison result obtained by the attribute comparing device.