Patent application EP17152136A (EP), filed 2017-01-19
Publication number: EP3196785A1
Title: INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
Abstract: An information processing system includes an image search system (1) and a customer-side system (700a). The image search system (1) includes a module distributer (600) and a searcher (100). The module distributer (600) is configured to distribute a search module and module identification information to the customer-side system while associating the search module and module identification information with each other. The search module is used for causing a terminal device (30a) to transmit the search request; the module identification information is used for identifying the search module. The searcher (100) is configured to, as a result of causing the search module to run on the terminal device, execute the searching of the databases in accordance with the module identification information. The module distributer distributes, to the customer-side system, the search modules associated with different pieces of module identification information.
IPC codes: G06F  17/    30            A I
G06F  16/    30            A I
G06Q  10/    10            A I
Claims: number: 1
text: An information processing system comprising:
number: 2
text: The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein
the databases include
number: 3
text: The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein, when none of the pieces of module identification information is included in the search request, the searcher selects one of the second databases as the database to be searched.
number: 4
text: The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the customer-side system comprises a program distributer configured to distribute, to the terminal device, a first application program generated in a manner such that the first application program includes the search module and the module identification information that are distributed by the module distributer.
number: 5
text: The information processing system according to claim 4, wherein the program distributer distributes, to the terminal device, the first application program that is generated so as to be independently executable.
number: 6
text: The information processing system according to claim 4, wherein the program distributer distributes, to the terminal device, the first application program that is generated so as to be executed after being incorporated into a second application program.
number: 7
text: The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the image search system further comprises a medium generator configured to generate a medium to be used for presenting an image including the image to be found.
number: 8
text: The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein
the image search system further comprises a registerer configured to register the image to be found and the linkage information in the databases, and
the registerer is configured to be usable from the customer-side system.
number: 9
text: An information processing method for an information processing system including an image search system and a customer-side system,
the image search system being configured to search, for an image to be found, databases in accordance with a search request and based on similarity thereof to a search key image, the databases having the image to be found and linkage information registered therein in association with each other, and transmit the linkage information associated with the image to be found to a transmitter of the search request when the image to be found is found,
the customer-side system being operated by a customer of the image search system,
the information processing method comprising:
number: 10
text: The information processing method according to claim 9, wherein
the databases include
first databases to be searched when searches corresponding to the respective pieces of module identification information are performed, and
second databases to be searched when a search commonly possible for any of the pieces of module identification information is performed, and
the executing the searching includes selecting, based on the module identification information included in the search request, the first databases or the second databases as the databases to be searched.
number: 11
text: The information processing method according to claim 10, wherein the executing the searching includes, when none of the pieces of module identification information is included in the search request, selecting the second databases as the databases to be searched.
number: 12
text: The information processing method according to claim 9, further comprising:
number: 13
text: The information processing method according to claim 12, wherein the distributing the first application program includes distributing, to the terminal device, the first application program that is generated so as to be independently executable.
number: 14
text: The information processing method according to claim 12, wherein the distributing the first application program includes distributing, to the terminal device, the first application program that is generated so as to be executed after being incorporated into a second application program.
number: 15
text: The information processing method according to claim 9, further comprising:
Office action: search_report, dated 2017-07-26
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ref_id: - EVA HÖRSTER ET AL, "Image retrieval on large-scale image databases", 6TH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE AND VIDEO RETRIEVAL (CIVR 2007) : AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, 9 - 11 JULY 2007, ACM, (20070709), ISBN 978-1-59593-733-9, pages 17 - 24, XP002613833 [A] 1-15 * abstract * * page  17, column  l, paragraph  1.  - page  18, column  l, line  2 * * page  18, column  l, paragraph  2.  - page  20, column  l, paragraph  3. * * page  21, column  l, paragraph  3.2  - page  22, column  r, paragraph  4.1 *
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severity: background
Final disposition: pending (2017-07-26)