METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RETRIEVING IMAGE AND RETRIEVAL SERVICE UTILIZING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a listing property of contents of an image database by deciding the spatial coordinates of each image from feature variables of the image, using a technique such as computer graphics and displaying an image icon in three-dimensional space. SOLUTION: An original feature variable extracting module 102 extracts plural original feature variables from each image in an image database 101 and stores them in an original feature database 103. Next, a plotting feature variable configuration module 104 reconfigures feature variables for plotting from those original feature variables and stores it in a plotting feature variable database 105. A visualizing module 106 uses plotting feature variables that are calculated in each image, calculates three-dimensional coordinate values and adds image icons to corresponding three-dimensional positions in the space that is constituted of computer graphics by using them. Thus, an image of each image data or an image icon which is a pattern that is contracted or simply summarizes it is displayed.