Appeal 2007-0353
Application 09/255,352
images and used to retrieve images from a plurality of images stored in an
image database. The extracted common key image feature values are
compared with the plurality of images stored in the image database to
determine similarities between each of the common key image feature
values and respective ones of the database image feature values for each of
the plurality of stored database images.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as follows:
1. An image searching system comprising:
an image database storing a plurality of database images, each of said
plurality of database images having a plurality of features;
a specifying controller for specifying a plurality of key images, each
of said plurality of key images being specified by a user and having a
respective plurality of features;
an extracting controller for extracting common key image feature
values for common key image features that are common to the plurality of
key images;
a calculating controller for comparing the common key image feature
values, extracted by the extracting controller, with the respective feature
values of the plurality of database images to thereby sequentially calculate
similarities between each of the common key image feature values and
respective ones of the database image feature values for each of the plurality
of database images; and
a searching controller for retrieving from the database at least one of
the plurality of database images which is similar to the plurality of key
images, based on a similarity calculated by the calculating controller.
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