Image search apparatus, image search method, server, client, color palette, color pallet creating apparatus, color palette creating method, program and recording medium

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image search device that allows a user, in searching for an image of a commodity of a desired color from images of a plurality of commodities in one category, to grasp the number of the commodities of each color and a distribution of the colors of the commodities.SOLUTION: An image search device includes a server and one or more clients connected to the server via a network. The server includes a color palette creation unit that creates a color palette having one or more buttons arranged thereon, corresponds to each of one or more clusters including each of one or more images of commodities which is each of images of a plurality of commodities in one category stored in an image storage unit is classified and represents a color, as a representative color, created by using representative colors of the images of all the commodities included in each of the clusters, and an image search unit that searches for an image of a commodity of a color corresponding to the representative color of a button on the color palette designated by a client from the images of the plurality of commodities.