Patent ID: 7515744
Filing Date: 2009-04-07
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus which accesses a database that stores items of characteristic quantity information to be used for recognizing, in image data, respective objects and items of color information of the respective objects, the characteristic quantity information and the color information are correlated with each other for the respective objects, comprising: means for judging whether information indicating a color space of image data satisfies a prescribed condition, the information being appended to and input together with the image data; means for performing image recognition processing on the image data using the items of characteristic quantity information stored in the database and for acquiring color information of an object that has been recognized in the image data by the image recognition processing, if it is judged that the information indicating the color space does not satisfy the prescribed condition; and means for searching the database to retrieve the color information indicating a color of the object recognized by the image recognition processing and for identifying a color space of the image data by comparing the acquired color information with the retrieved color information.