Method of Gesture-Based Definition of an Object within an Image
AssigneeImaginestics, LLC
InventorsNainesh Rathod, Jamie Tan, Joseph Czepil, Tanvi Srivastava
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Abstract
A method of defining input to an image-based search engine includes displaying and image on a screen and detecting at least three points touched by a user on the image. An object in the image is identified having the at least three points as vertices. The identified object is inputted to an image-based search engine. Portions of the image not included within the object are excluded from the input to the image-based search engine.
Claims20
A method of defining input to an image-based search engine, comprising the steps of:
- displaying an image on a screen;
- detecting at least three points touched by a user on the image;
- identifying an object in the image having the at least three points as vertices;
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- inputting the identified object in the image to an image-based search engine, portions of the image not included within the object being excluded from the input to the image-based search engine.
A method of defining input to an image-based search engine, comprising the steps of:
- displaying an image on a screen;
- detecting a plurality of points touched by a user on the image;
- sensing an order in time in which the points were touched by the user;
- identifying an object in the image having the points as vertices and a respective substantially straight edge between each consecutively touched pair of said points;
- and
- inputting the identified object in the image to an image-based search engine, portions of the image not included within the object being excluded from the input to the image-based search engine.
A method of defining input to an image-based search engine, comprising the steps of:
- displaying an image on a screen;
- detecting a plurality of points touched by a user on the image, each of the points representing a respective location along a profile of an object that is fragmentarily displayed in the image;
- extrapolating the fragmentarily displayed image of the object beyond at least one border of the screen to thereby produce an extrapolated image of the object, the extrapolating being dependent upon the detecting step;
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- inputting the extrapolated image of the object to an image-based search engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.