It makes it possible to extract characteristic information number contained in the target data can be less is desired. The type of apparatus, a similarity calculating section for storing the similarity table by calculating the similarity of the data to any two, except a combination of their own in the target data of the multiple similarity is predetermined criterion and non-merged object selecting section for selecting as a Merge target object data of two meet, the new object creating unit that creates a new object data from the merged object, and each of the target data of the selected two as the merged object new object added to compute a merged object removal unit for removing from the similarity table similarity with the target data, and a new target data, the similarity with the target data of the object data other than the new in the target data multiple I and a part.
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