Image analysis – Image transformation or preprocessing – Image storage or retrieval
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-22
2009-12-29
Werner, Brian P (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Image transformation or preprocessing
Image storage or retrieval
C382S190000, C382S192000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07639899
ABSTRACT:
A digital pictorial book system for searching for and providing a user with an explanation of an object captured by an image capturing module includes an image capturing module for capturing 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 explanation searching module for searching for the explanation of the main object in a plurality of image databases, which store explanations of the objects corresponded to a plurality of different kinds of features of the objects by using the feature extracted by the feature extracting module; and a distinguishing feature selecting module for selecting a distinguishing feature, of which an overlap of certainty distributions is the smallest for each object and each kind of the feature out of the different kinds of features stored in the image database corresponded to the plurality of objects in case the explanations of the plurality of objects are searched out by the explanation searching module, in order to narrow down the candidates even in case that a plurality of candidates is searched out in the image databases.
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Igarashi Takashi
Isomura Ayumu
FUJIFILM Corporation
Patel Jayesh
Sughrue & Mion, PLLC
Werner Brian P
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