PURPOSE: To provide the holonic visual recognizing device which recognizes a curved line figure by using line end information on segments in N-azimuths detected from the curved line figure as a meaning information.

CONSTITUTION: This visual recognizing device consists of an information input part 101 which composes an image reception surface of pixels arranged in a simple square lattice, an information generation part 102 which has N (N: natural number) detection azimuths and generates the line end information corresponding to partial line information from the image information of the information input part, and a meaning storage part 103 which arranges relative positions in the detection directions and has plural couples of line end information in the same azimuth and opposite directions. The gradients of ridges of a regular inverted 2N-angled pyramid whose apexes are arranged in the detection azimuths are regarded as a weight function used to information interchanging between the information generation part 102 and meaning storage part 103.