Semantic visual search engine

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2011-01-04

2011-01-04

Cottingham, John R. (Department: 2167)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database and file access

Search engines

C707S708000, C707S755000, C707S796000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07865492

ABSTRACT:
An improved method, device and computer program product for enabling a system to learn, categorize and search items such as images and video clips according to their semantic meanings. According to the present invention, prominent features can be separated from low-level features in an item using supervised learning approaches. Prominent features are used to categorize and annotate new target items. Users can then use key words and/or template items for searching through the respective database.

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