Patent Document ID: 6070161
Application ID: 09039619
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A keyword attaching method, comprising: registering a keyword and an image quantity obtained by numerically converting a linguistic sense of the keyword by a specified criterion into a keyword storing section with a correspondence provided between the keyword and the image quantity; referring to an object to which the keyword is attached and deriving, from the image quantity of the keyword attached to the object to be referred to and a feature quantity of the object to be referred to, a relational expression of the image quantity and the feature quantity; calculating the feature quantity of the object to be registered; obtaining the image quantity based on the calculated feature quantity and the relational expression and estimating the keyword to be attached to the object to be registered referring to the keyword storing section based on the obtained image quantity; and storing into an object storing section the estimated keyword and the object to be registered with a correspondence provided between the keyword and the object.