Patent ID: 6704466
Filing Date: 2004-03-09
Classification: G06F,G06K,Y10S

Abstract:
An image search apparatus for searching an image database that stores a plurality of image data comprising:first control means for controlling execution of an input means for inputting an image using an input window, and image feature amount computing means for computing an image feature amount of the image input by said input means; second control means for controlling execution of image similarity computing means for computing image similarity on the basis of the image feature amount computed by said image feature amount computing means and image feature amounts of image data stored in a storage medium and image display means for displaying a list of image data as search results on the basis of the image similarity computed by said image similarity computing means; and third control means for processing, in parallel, control processes of said first and second control means, and controlling a communication between said first and second control means, wherein said image feature amount computing means computes the image feature amount of the drawn image every time the image is modified by said input means, and wherein each of said first and second control means is implemented, in parallel, by different processes in a multi-process OS.