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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2015
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6215 (2013.01); G06F 17/30247 (2013.01); G06K 9/4604 (2013.01);
Abstract
This invention suppresses bloating of indices for an image search. To accomplish this, when a target image to be registered is given, an apparatus described in this specification executes partial image search processing using the target image to be registered as a query image. As a result, if a corresponding image is found, and an already registered image includes the query image, the target image to be registered is registered as an image linked to the already registered image.