Image searching method and image processing method
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Abstract
The image searching method extracts or recognizes specific information for an image that exists in the image and/or accompanies it, allows either the specific information itself or related information thereof to be appendant to image data for the image, stores the image data as well as either information appendant to the image data as accessory information in a database, designates at least a portion of the accessory information as a searching condition, searches through the database under the designated searching condition, determines a degree of agreement with the accessory information appendant to a selected image data and reads an image having the degree of agreement not lower than a predetermined value. The image processing method utilizes the image searching method. These methods are capable of efficient image detection or search using as a key specific information such as the shape of subjects.
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36. An image processing method;
- comprising the steps of;
extracting specific figures or specific subjects from a plurality of images within a single order; and
performing image processing of image frames to yield prints that are finished to have quality within a predetermined range if said image frames are similar in terms of positions and sizes of said specific figures or subjects.
- comprising the steps of;
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