Patent Document ID: 9047287
Application ID: 12977835
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a feature extracting unit extracting a feature of an image by analyzing the image; a metadata generating unit generating metadata including face image information based on the feature extracted from the image, wherein the face image information is at least in part indicative of a position and a size of a face contained in the image; an associating unit associating the metadata with the image; and a transmission control unit controlling transmission of the metadata to a search device which is different from the image processing apparatus, wherein the transmission control unit is for causing: (i) recording, on the search device, of the transmitted metadata of the image, and (ii) associating, on the search device, the transmitted metadata of the image with the image, wherein the search device controls to search, on the search device, images by using the transmitted metadata and displays the searched images related to the transmitted metadata.