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US 6,285,788 B1Granted
Method for fast return of abstracted images from a digital image database
AssigneeSharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
InventorsMuhammed Ibrahim Sezan, Richard Junqiang Qian
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Abstract
A method for expediting a search of a digital image database comprises, for each digital image, constructing a set of at least two abstracted images varying in level of detail and searching the abstracted images. Selected ones of the abstracted images are down-loaded to a user thereby reducing download time through a finite bandwidth communicative medium relative to the time needed to download complete digital images.
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A method for expediting a search of a digital image database, comprising:
- (a) providing for each said digital image in said digital image database a set of at least two abstracted image layers varying in level of detail, wherein said level of detail is hierarchical;
- (b) automatically searching said abstracted images in said digital image database to select a set of images;
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- (c) identifying a set of abstracted images corresponding to said selected images in said digital image database taken from at least one of said abstracted image layers, whereby the number of bits representative of said set of abstracted images is less than the number of bits representative of a set including nonabstracted images corresponding to said set of abstracted images.
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