Patent Document ID: 20130279814
Application ID: 13861060
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of image sets obtained by different acquisition methods; a generation unit that generates partial image sets by extracting corresponding partial images from respective images of the image sets; a first assignment unit that assigns the partial image sets generated by said generation unit to a root node of a tree structure; a selection unit that sets, at each node of the tree structure, positions of a plurality of pixels for each partial image set assigned to the node and selects one of the different acquisition methods based on pixel values of the set positions in each partial image set; a second assignment unit that assigns each partial image set assigned to each node to one of lower nodes based on the pixel values of the set positions in the partial images acquired by the acquisition method selected by said selection unit; and an output unit that outputs information about the set assigned to an end node of the tree structure.