Image analysis – Pattern recognition – Classification
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-22
2010-11-23
Mehta, Bhavesh M (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Pattern recognition
Classification
Reexamination Certificate
active
07840076
ABSTRACT:
An image retrieval program (IRP) may be used to query a collection of digital images. The IRP may include a mining module to use local and global feature descriptors to automatically rank the digital images in the collection with respect to similarity to a user-selected positive example. Each local feature descriptor may represent a portion of an image based on a division of that image into multiple portions. Each global feature descriptor may represent an image as a whole. A user interface module of the IRP may receive input that identifies an image as the positive example. The user interface module may also present images from the collection in a user interface in a ranked order with respect to similarity to the positive example, based on results of the mining module. Query concepts may be saved and reused. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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Bouguet Jean-Yves
Dulong Carole
Kozintsev Igor V.
Nefian Ara V.
Wu Yi
Grossman Tucker Perreault & Pfleger PLLC
Intel Corporation
Mehta Bhavesh M
Rashid David P
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