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In one embodiment of the invention, a pattern recognition apparatus comprises a unit for inputting a pattern of a to-be recognized category; and a processor with a memory for: generating input subspace; calculating and storing reference subspaces; storing constraint subspaces for extracting features; projecting the input subspace and the reference subspaces respectively onto the constraint subspaces; calculating similarities between the respective reference subspaces and the input subspace in such projected state; combining the similarities in respect of the constraint subspaces on each of the reference subspaces; and identifying the to-be recognized category with a category corresponding to one of the reference subspaces, if the combined similarity between the one of reference subspace and the input subspace is highest among them.
