OBJECT CLASSIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT METHOD, OBJECT CLASSIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, OBJECT CLASSIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user, using a computer, to classify, organize and manage an object group of large quantities of image groups or the like efficiently and at a low cost.;SOLUTION: A plurality of objects are classified on the basis of feature quantity that each object has, an object set of the classified objects is managed together with the hierarchical relation among respective pieces of metadata added to respective objects included in the object set, and either or both of the hierarchical relation among respective pieces of the metadata and the object set is displayed.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO