Patent Document ID: 20110103652
Application ID: 12910296
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a unit which acquires N images sensed under N respective types of image sensing conditions; a management unit which extracts respective feature amounts from the N sensed images, and manages the feature amounts extracted from each sensed image as a feature amount cluster in association with corresponding one of the image sensing conditions; a first specification unit which specifies a second feature amount cluster containing a feature amount similar to a feature amount of interest in a first feature amount cluster among feature amount clusters managed by said management unit; a second specification unit which specifies sets of feature amounts associated with the N respective types of image sensing conditions from the first feature amount cluster and the second feature amount cluster; a third specification unit which specifies a set having a largest distance between feature amounts in the set among the sets specified by said second specification unit; and an output unit which outputs an image sensing condition associated with the set specified by said third specification unit, as an image sensing condition for discriminating the first feature amount cluster and the second feature amount cluster.