Patent attributes
A server apparatus which transmits, to a plurality of other server apparatuses each of which performs subject recognition for an image, an image acquired from a client terminal and requests the plurality of other server apparatuses to perform subject recognition receives a result of subject recognition from each of the plurality of other server apparatuses, transmits, to the client terminal, subject information to be appended to metadata of the image based on the received result of subject recognition, and performs control to switch whether to, each time a result of subject recognition is received from each of the plurality of other server apparatuses, transmit, to the client terminal, subject information that is based on the received result of subject recognition or to transmit, to the client terminal, subject information that is based on a result obtained by integrating results of subject recognition received from the plurality of other server apparatuses.
