PATTERN CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

A pattern classification method extracts a quantity of pattern characteristics from a pattern classification target, registers/sets in a pattern dictionary classification category information corresponding to the quantity of pattern characteristics, performs pattern classification based on the quantity of pattern characteristics and a Mahalanobis dictionary registered in the pattern dictionary, and creates the Mahalanobis dictionary by effecting optimization processing of the pattern dictionary based on the classification category name and the quantity of pattern characteristics.