Patent Document ID: 8385606
Application ID: 11496551
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a detecting section detecting, in a first image, a quantity of faces, a size of the faces, and a facing direction of the faces, the quantity being one or more than one, the detecting section generating first metadata corresponding to the detection results; an associating section associating the first image with the first metadata; a generating section generating a label indicating a category of the first image based on the first metadata of the first image and a pre-determined reference value, the reference value comprising a value range including a maximum value and a minimum value; and a searching section searching for a second image based on the reference value specified by an icon selected by a user, the searching section comprising a margin adder, wherein the margin adder performs one of (1) increasing the maximum value while maintaining the minimum value or (2) maintaining the maximum value while decreasing the minimum value.