IMAGE MATCH-POINT DETECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE MATCH-POINT DETECTION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM

An image match-point detection apparatus has a pattern detection part, a pattern storage part, a characteristic-point extraction part and a match-point detection part. The match-point detection part determines whether the pattern numbers of the pattern information extracted as the characteristic-point pattern information for the bitmap images are identical to one another and detects a plurality of the pattern information comprising the identical pattern number, as match-point information.