Patent Document ID: 10061989
Application ID: 15075376
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An information transfer apparatus comprising: at least one processor configured to operate as: an analysis unit that obtains data serving as a learning target, compares the obtained data with a reference model, and assigns, to the data, an index indicating a degree of worthiness of the data as the learning target; and a transmission processing unit that transmits the data to an external device based on a first rule that has been set using the index, wherein the analysis unit obtains image data as the data, determines whether a target object appears in the image data by comparing the obtained image data with the reference model, and assigns a certainty degree to the image data as the index in accordance with a result of the determination, the certainty degree indicating how certain it is that the target object appears in the image data, the transmission processing unit transmits the image data to the external device based on a second rule that has been set using the certainty degree, the second rule includes a plurality of rules stipulating that, when the number of times the certainty degree has exceeded a threshold is larger than a set number, most recent image data with a certainty degree higher than the threshold is transmitted, the threshold is different for each of the plurality of rules, the transmission processing unit applies the plurality of rules in descending order of the threshold until the certainty degree exceeds the threshold, and the plurality of rules is set such that as the threshold of the certainty degree and a transmission rate of the image data become small progressively, the set number becomes large progressively.