Digital pictorial book system, pictorial book searching method, and machine readable medium storing thereon pictorial book searching program

摘要

A digital pictorial book system for searching for and providing to a user with an explanation of an object captured by an image capturing module includes an image capturing module for taking an image; a main object selecting module for selecting a main object out of the image; a feature extracting module for extracting a feature of the main object; an image database selecting module for selecting an image database which stores a feature of a kind extracted by the feature extracting module out of a plurality of image databases which store explanations of objects corresponded to a plurality kinds of different features of the objects; and an explanation searching module for searching for the explanation of the main object in the selected image database.