Patent ID: 8565493

Claim:
A face recognition method, comprising the steps of: (a) creating a list of persons determined uniquely based on a user of a terminal, said persons on said list comprising a subset of people for which information is stored in a feature data database on a server, where said information includes feature information for said persons; (b) receiving feature data at a server from a the terminal which is communicable with the server, said feature data acquired by detecting each part of a face of a person included in digital data; (c) comparing the feature data received from the terminal with feature data stored in said feature data database of said persons on said list of persons based on face recognition technology, and deciding top n persons with top n degree of similarities among the persons on said list of persons by referring to respective similarity scores of each part of the face and total scores reflecting a weighted value allotted to each part of the face to the degree of similarities that is changed based on an identity of the person, wherein comparing the feature data comprises calculating a first degree of similarity between a first facial part of the received feature data and a first corresponding feature data stored in the feature database, calculating a second degree of similarity between a second facial part of the received feature data and a second corresponding feature data stored in the feature database, and adding the first degree of similarity and the second degree of similarity; and (d) providing the information on the top n persons from the server to the terminal.