Patent ID: 7202873

Claim:
A specific scene image selecting apparatus comprising a scene designation receiving means which receives designation of a desired specific scene of a plurality of scenes, an image input receiving means which receives input of image data representing an object image to be selected, a characteristic value deriving means which derives from the image data input into the image input receiving means at least one of a characteristic value for use in distinguishment of the specific scene and characteristic values for use in distinguishment of the plurality of scenes, referring to reference data in which the kind of at least one characteristic value for use in distinguishment of the specific scene and distinguishing condition corresponding to at least one characteristic value are defined in advance for each of the plurality of scenes which can be designated as the specific scene, and a distinguishing means which determines whether the image data is data representing an image which is of the specific scene input into the scene designation receiving means on the basis of the characteristic value derived by the characteristic value deriving means referring to the corresponding distinguishing condition defined in the reference data.