US 11,442,980 B2Granted

System and method for photo scene searching

AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

InventorJenHao Hsiao

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Abstract

Users may have a variety of photos, but lack a mechanism to organize the photos. For example, a user may desire to access a photo of a child in front of a national monument, but may be unable to locate the photo amongst the photos. Accordingly, a photo query may be generated utilizing a photo query interface populated with a face query attribute (e.g., a proxy icon, a photo of a face, etc.), a face position attribute (e.g., a position of the face query attribute), and/or a location query attribute (e.g., a background of a photo, such as a forest, a monument, etc.) using drag and drop functionality and/or any other query construction functionality. One or more photos having attributes corresponding to the photo query may be identified and provided to the user.

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Dependent claims

A system for searching images, the system comprising:

a processor;
and
memory comprising instructions that when executed by the processor implement a photo identification component configured to:
generate a photo query interface populated with a user interface element associated with at least one of a face query attribute, a face position query attribute, or a location query attribute;
display the photo query interface to a user, wherein the user interface element displayed in the photo query interface is movable from a first position of a grid of the photo query interface to one or more other positions of the grid of the photo query interface;
receive a photo query constructed based upon a dragging and dropping, by the user, of the user interface element from the first position of the grid of the photo query interface to a second position of the grid of the photo query interface, wherein the photo query is indicative of the second position of the grid of the photo query interface to which the user interface element was dragged and dropped;
identify one or more photos based upon the photo query indicative of the second position of the grid of the photo query interface to which the user interface element was dragged and dropped;
and
present the one or more photos to the user as photo search results.

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Facts

Application: 16/222,241Filed 17 Dec 2018 · continuation
Priority: 20 Mar 2015
Published: US 2019/0121821 A125 Apr 2019
Granted: 13 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 16/532
Querying: query formulation, e.g. graphical querying
G06F 16/54
Of still image data: browsing; Visualisation therefor
G06F 16/583
Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually: using metadata automatically…
G06F 16/5838
Using metadata automatically derived from the content: using colour

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Application14/664,011Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Mar 2015
US 2019/0121821 A1Pre-grant publication · published 25 Apr 2019
US 10,157,192 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2016/0275111 A1Published application
US 11,442,980 B2This patent

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