Method and apparatus for managing images, a method and apparatus

Details Method and apparatus for managing images, a method and apparatus Method and apparatus for managing images, a method and apparatus

1998-01-09

2000-12-12

Alam, Hosain T.

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707 3, 704271, 434176, 382 9, G06F 1730

Patent

active

061611085

ABSTRACT:
Image data and natural language data indicating a visual impression of an image prepared based on the image data are correlated to each other and stored in the correlated form in the image database, and when retrieving an image using the retrieving section, natural language data indicating a text for retrieval is inputted from a natural language input section, and image data relating to natural language data having a common visual impression is extracted from the image database by collating the inputted natural language data to natural language data on the image database.

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