Abstract: An information processing apparatus uses a storing unit configured to store search conditions, search results obtained based the search conditions and importance levels of the search results in association with each other. When an input search condition has been stored in the storing unit, a search result and an importance level from the storing unit with the use of the search condition as a key, and, when the input search condition has not been stored in the storing unit, a new search result based on the input search condition. On a display screen, the search results modified according to the importance levels, or the new search results, are displayed.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus for registering image data includes a network processing unit configured for acquiring image data through a network, an image correction unit for analyzing the image data, extracting a background image and a subject image from the image data, and correcting the extracted background image according to a correction condition, and a database unit for storing the corrected image data such that the image data is associated with the corrected image data.

Abstract: In a printing control method and device, a processing method for print data is extracted from a processing-method storage unit in which information, contained in print data received from a terminal device, and processing methods associated with the information are stored, by accessing the processing-method storage unit using the information as a key. A print processing data is acquired based on the extracted processing method.

Abstract: The video index information has a tree structure comprising frame information, sound information, segment information, and package information each as a structure element object. The segment information manages package information for managing a plurality of other segment information as a group, and in the tree structure, the package information is allocated in addition to the frame information and sound information under one segment information, and the video information is managed by using the tree structure of the video index information and structure element objects therein.

Abstract: An area extracting unit extracts area information from a page of document information for each area of different types arranged on the page. A relation extracting unit extracts relation information indicating a relation between the area information and the page of the document information that is an extraction source of the area information, from the page of the document information. A registering unit registers the area information and the relation information in area correspondence information stored in a storage unit in association with each other.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input unit, an object extracting unit, and an integrating unit. The input unit receives input of object information about an object rendered in a unit and positional information of the object about its position within document data, from each page of the document data. The object extracting unit extracts objects included in an area of image, diagram or graph based on input positional-information of the objects. The integrated-image creating unit creates an integrated image of each area by integrating extracted objects.

Abstract: A feature-amount extracting unit extracts a first feature amount of information to be registered, from the information. A searching unit searches for a second feature amount of information from a feature-amount storing unit. A similarity calculating unit calculates a similarity between the first feature amount and the second feature amount. A registering unit registers the first information in association with a similarity-information list in a similarity-information-list storing unit, which includes the second information corresponding to the second feature amount of which the calculated similarity is larger than a threshold, as similarity information.

Abstract: A method of displaying images that resemble each other includes the steps of extracting image features from images, dividing a feature space of the image features into sub-spaces having a hierarchical structure, generating a tree structure having the sub-spaces as nodes thereof, dividing a display space into divided spaces reflecting the tree structure, and assigning the images to the corresponding divided spaces so as to display the images arranged in the display space.

Abstract: An image space display method facilitates a user to grasp a feature space by assigning each feature to a respective one of dimensional axes of a display space. The image-space display method extracts features from images, hierarchically divides a feature space of the features, virtually converts the images into a tree structure, divides a display space according to the tree-structure, and displays the image space by displaying the images on each of the divided display spaces. In the method a tree-structure is generated for each of the features. Dimension data corresponding to a number of the features is generated by mapping each tree structure in one-dimension. The dimension data is displayed on the corresponding divided display spaces as display coordinate-axis data.

Abstract: The video index information has a tree structure comprising frame information, sound information, segment information, and package information each as a structure element object. The segment information manages package information for managing a plurality of other segment information as a group, and in the tree structure, the package information is allocated in addition to the frame information and sound information under one segment information, and the video information is managed by using the tree structure of the video index information and structure element objects therein.

Abstract: The video index information has a tree structure comprising frame information, sound information, segment information, and package information each as a structure element object. The segment information manages package information for managing a plurality of other segment information as a group, and in the tree structure, the package information is allocated in addition to the frame information and sound information under one segment information, and the video information is managed by using the tree structure of the video index information and structure element objects therein.

Abstract: An image-feature extraction method is realized by identifying to which area in a color space with a plurality of areas previously segmented thereinto each pixel belongs based on a color of each pixel which forms a prepared image; and generating a color histogram of the image based on a number of pixels which belong to each of the areas. When the generated color histogram is extracted as feature parameters representing features of the image, a color space suited to human sensibility on color and also a color space segmented into areas each suited to human sensibility on color are used as a color space.

Abstract: A classification method for classifying all images in an image database is disclosed. The method includes the steps of extracting a query image from a plurality of images in an image database, searching, according to a predetermined similarity level, for a representative image resembling the query image in a representative image classification database in which groups of images are represented by respective representative images, registering the query image as a new representative image in the representative image classification database when no resembling representative image is found as a result of the search according to the predetermined similarity level, and adding the query image into a group represented by the resembling representative image found as a result of the search according to the predetermined similarity level.

Abstract: An image space display method facilitates a user to grasp a feature space by assigning each feature to a respective one of dimensional axes of a display space. The image-space display method extracts features from images, hierarchically divides a feature space of the features, virtually converts the images into a tree structure, divides a display space according to the tree-structure, and displays the image space by displaying the images on each of the divided display spaces. In the method a tree-structure is generated for each of the features. Dimension data corresponding to a number of the features is generated by mapping each tree structure in one-dimension. The dimension data is displayed on the corresponding divided display spaces as display coordinate-axis data.

Abstract: Ranked database is generated for referring to images. The database contains references or key text to images, and the references are ranked for predetermined degrees of relevance to the images.