PRODUCT SEARCH APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM

摘要

The product search apparatus includes a physical amount acquisition unit acquires a physical amount of an image of a specific product from a product database, a first conversion unit converts the acquired physical amount of the image of the specific product into information indicating a specific-product sensibility block that is a block corresponding to the image of the specific product among a plurality of blocks in a sensibility space, a block-of-interest selection unit that selects, as a block of interest, a block different from the specific-product sensibility block based on information indicating the specific-product sensibility block, a second conversion unit converts information indicating the block of interest into information indicating a range of a physical amount of an image, and a search unit searches for an image corresponding to the block of interest from the product database based on the information indicating the range of the physical amount.

主权项

1. A product search apparatus using a product database for storing a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of respective products and a physical amount of the images of the products in association with each other, the product search apparatus comprising:
a physical amount acquisition unit that acquires a physical amount of an image of a specific product from the product database; a first conversion unit that converts the acquired physical amount of the image of the specific product into information indicating a specific-product sensibility block that is a block corresponding to the image of the specific product among a plurality of blocks in a sensibility space in which a plurality of sensibility words representing sensibility of a person are arranged; a block-of-interest selection unit that selects, as a block of interest, a block different from the specific-product sensibility block from among the plurality of blocks in the sensibility space based on information indicating the specific-product sensibility block obtained by the first conversion unit; a second conversion unit that converts information indicating the block of interest in the sensibility space into information indicating a range of a physical amount of an image corresponding to the block of interest; and a search unit that searches for an image corresponding to the block of interest from the product database based on the information indicating the range of the physical amount obtained by the second conversion unit.