Patent attributes
Disclosed is a similar facial image search system which is less susceptible to bias in search results even when there is a difference in the angle from which a face is photographed. The present invention is provided with: a means for detecting a first face from the inputted search subject image; a means for calculating and a means for recording a feature value of the detected first face; a means for detecting a second face from an inputted key image used for search; a means for calculating the face angle of the second face; a means for determining a synthesis pattern from the calculated face angle; a means for generating a synthetic face image according to the determined synthesis pattern; a means for calculating the feature value of the second face using the generated synthetic face image; a means for searching a database using a plurality of calculated face feature values as a query; and a means for integrating the plurality of the retrieved search results.