US 7,809,192 B2Granted

System and method for recognizing objects from images and identifying relevancy amongst images and information

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InventorsSalih Burak Gokturk, Dragomir Anguelov, Vincent Vanhoucke, Kuang-Chih Lee, Diem Vu, Danny Yang, Munjal Shah, Azhar Khan

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Abstract

An embodiment provides for enabling retrieval of a collection of captured images that form at least a portion of a library of images. For each image in the collection, a captured image may be analyzed to recognize information from image data contained in the captured image, and an index may be generated, where the index data is based on the recognized information. Using the index, functionality such as search and retrieval is enabled. Various recognition techniques, including those that use the face, clothing, apparel, and combinations of characteristics may be utilized. Recognition may be performed on, among other things, persons and text carried on objects.

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Dependent claims

A method for analyzing a collection of captured images, the method comprising:

using one or more processors to perform steps comprising:
(a) performing analysis on each image in the collection to determine analysis information that is associated with one or more images from the collection;
(b) maintaining a data structure that associates the one or more individual images from the collection with the analysis information that is associated with that image;
(c) identifying an object carrying a text in the one or more images from the collection;
(d) making a determination that the identified text comprises only a portion of a word, including determining that the identified text is one of (i) a word that is in skew on the object of the image, or (ii) a word that appears to omit one or more letters in the image;
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(e) enabling a search of the data structure using a word from the identified text as search criteria for individual images in the collection that are associated with analysis information that match or are relevant to the determined word.

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Facts

Application: 11/246,589Filed 7 Oct 2005 · us provisional application
Priority: 9 May 2005
Published: US 2006/0251292 A19 Nov 2006
Granted: 5 Oct 2010
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Classification5 codes

G06V 40/107
Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands: static hand or arm
G06F 16/58
Of still image data: retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
G06F 16/5846
Using metadata automatically derived from the content: using extracted text
G06V
Image and video recognition