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US 6,556,713 B2Granted
Image processing apparatus and method and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuji Kobayashi, Kentaro Matsumoto
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Abstract
A search result of a search target object is displayed at a high speed. By dividing an image into a plurality of areas and allocating attribute information to each area, only the area including the attribute information showing the search target object is searched and is displayed or transmitted, so that a part of a desired image can be extracted at a high speed.
Claims27
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a discriminating unit adapted to discriminate a position designate word from the other words in a search phrase input by a user by a classification of the search word phrase;
- and
- a searching unit adapted to search an area corresponding to the position designate word for image data which satisfies conditions of a key word in the case wherein it is determined by said discriminating unit that information indicative of the key word and said position designate word is included in said search word phrase.
An image processing method comprising:
- a discriminating step of discriminating a position designate word from the other words in a search word phrase input by a user by a classification of the search word phrase;
- and
- a searching step of searching an area corresponding to the position designate word for image data which satisfies conditions of a key word in the case wherein it is determined by said discriminating step that information indicative of the key word and said position designate word is included in said search word phrase.
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a first storage unit adapted to divide an image into a plurality of areas and storing attribute information comprising a key word for each of the areas;
- a searching unit adapted to search, when a search word phrase including a position designate word is designated by being input by a user, an attribute information corresponding to the search word phrase from a plurality of said attribute information stored in the first storage unit;
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- an output control unit adapted to control output of an area having searched attribute information searched by said searching unit.
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An image processing method comprising:
- a first storage step of dividing an image into a plurality of areas and storing attribute information comprising a key word for each of the areas;
- a searching step of when a search word phrase including a position designate word is designated by being input by a user, searching an attribute information corresponding to the search word phrase from a plurality of said attribute information stored in said first storage step;
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- an output control step of controlling output of an area having searched attribute information searched in said searching step.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.