Digital image search system and method

Details Digital image search system and method Digital image search system and method

2008-08-27

2009-10-06

Patel, Kanji (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Applications

Personnel identification

C455S410000, C707S793000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07599527

ABSTRACT:
A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of an unknown twin using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors.

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