An operating method of a discrimination result providing apparatus including a reception section, a learning section, and a discrimination result transmission section, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a plurality of terminals that belong to a plurality of organizations, identification information for identifying the organizations and image correct solution data obtained by assigning correct solution data to an image through a network, using the reception section;
- obtaining a learning-terminated discriminator that is a discriminator that has performed learning using the received image correct solution data, using the learning section;
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- transmitting a discrimination result to the terminal that is a transmission source of a discrimination target image through the network, the discrimination result being obtained by determining distribution of resources capable of being used by the learning-terminated discriminator in accordance with the number of pieces of the image correct solution data received for each piece of identification information or the degree of performance improvement of the learning-terminated discriminator through learning using the image correct solution data received for the each piece of identification information and performing, by the learning-terminated discriminator, discrimination with respect to the discrimination target image received from the terminal using the resources of the determined distribution with respect to the identification information of the organization to which the terminal belongs, using the discrimination result transmission section.