| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically classify image data on the basis of the characteristics of an image such as the face of a figure in the image data. <P>SOLUTION: Image data photographed by a digital camera 1 are input to a PC 4 as an image classifying device, and the classification types and registered images corresponding to the classification types are preliminarily stored in the PC 4, and partial images in the image data are extracted, and the partial images to be classified are selected from the extracted partial images, and the selected partial images are collated with the stored registered images, and the image data are classified corresponding to the classification types of the registered images judged so as to be similar to the selected partial images by the collation. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |
