Patent Document ID: 20120301015
Application ID: 13475152
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image identification device that learns in advance a separating plane used for classifying images into predetermined categories in a first feature quantity space using a feature of the image as a coordinate axis and uses the separating plane to classify block images obtained by dividing a target image into the categories, the image identification device comprising: an input unit that inputs the target image; a block image generation unit that divides the target image into a plurality of blocks to generate the block images; a feature quantity computing unit that computes feature quantities of the block images; and a category determination unit that determines whether the block images are classified into one of the categories or not, using the separating plane and coordinate positions corresponding to magnitudes of feature quantities of the block images in the first feature quantity space, wherein the feature quantity computing unit uses, as feature quantities for the block images, local feature quantities calculated according to image information of the block images and a global feature quantity calculated according to image information of the target image as a whole, and in a second feature quantity space where a plurality of features of the block images are used as coordinate axes, using coordinate positions of feature quantity vectors made by combining the local feature quantities of the block images and using at least one optional area, the number of block images that have the feature quantity vectors belonging to the area is counted on an area-by-area basis to be included in the global feature quantity.