Method for searching multimedia using progressive histogram

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for retrieving multimedia using a histogram. The present invention configures a histogram that a relatively important bin comes at the lead of the access when accessing histogram data for retrieving the multimedia and retrieves multimedia data by using the progressive histogram. According to the present invention, there are several advantages that a high retrieval capacity can be guaranteed even though only front part in the order of transfer of the histogram is used and the efficiency and capacity of retrieval can be enhanced by using a progressive histogram optimized according to the feature at every multimedia.