Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuichi Nakase
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus stores a database which includes first analytical information obtained by analyzing an image existing on a recording medium, a matching dictionary including information extracted from a camera dictionary with an identifier added to each subject, and file information relating information about each subject existing in the image file with the identifier, and checks consistency between the information in the matching dictionary and information in the camera dictionary, and reconstructs the database retrieve of the database is possible to be performed, in a case where any inconsistency is found as a result of the consistency confirming.
Claims17
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a first storage unit configured to store a first dictionary relating information of a name of a subject and feature information indicating a feature of the subject to each other;
- a second storage unit configured to store a database including a second dictionary in which an identifier is added to at least one of the information of the name of the subject and the feature information indicating a feature of the subject included in the first dictionary, and file information which is information of an image file and relates information about the subject existing in the image file with the identifier;
- a consistency confirming unit configured to check consistency between the information in the second dictionary and the information in the first dictionary;
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- a reconstruction unit configured to reconstruct the database when retrieve of the database is possible to be performed, in a case where any inconsistency is found by the consistency confirming unit.
A method for controlling an image processing apparatus which includes a first storage unit configured to store a first dictionary relating information of a name of a subject and feature information indicating a feature of the subject to each other, and a second storage unit configured to store a database including a second dictionary in which an identifier is added to at least one of the information of the name of the subject and the feature information indicating a feature of the subject included in the first dictionary, and file information which is information of an image file and relates information about the subject existing in the image file with the identifier, the method comprising:
- checking consistency between the information in the second dictionary and the information in the first dictionary;
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- reconstructing the database when retrieve of the database is possible to be performed, in a case where any inconsistency is found by the checking.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.