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- Patent Title: Image searching device, method and recording medium
- Patent Title (中): 图像搜索装置,方法和记录介质
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Application No.: US12200200Application Date: 2008-08-28
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Publication No.: US08135240B2Publication Date: 2012-03-13
- Inventor: Naoyuki Satoh
- Applicant: Naoyuki Satoh
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Dickstein Shapiro LLP
- Priority: JP2007-221244 20070828
- Main IPC: G06K9/54
- IPC: G06K9/54

Abstract:
An image searching device including a database, a user interface, a search unit, and an output unit. The search unit includes a data management unit configured to manage data on a model to be searched and acquired from the database and create an image to be displayed on a screen of the user interface; a determination unit configured to determine and extract parts each having a boundary included in a closed region as candidate parts; a part selection unit configured to display single images of the candidate parts on the screen of the user interface to enable selection of a target part; and an image switching unit configured to create data on a part emphasis frame and switch the screen displayed on the user interface from the single images of the candidate parts to a full image in which the target part is highlighted with the part emphasis frame.
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