US 8,897,505 B2 · System and method for enabling the use of captured images through recognition

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 performed by at least one processor, the method comprising:

analyzing a first captured image and a second captured image, including:
detecting a first face in the first captured image and a second face in the second captured image;
and
detecting a first clothing item associated with the first face and a second clothing item associated with the second face;
and
determining that the first captured image and the second captured image belong to a common cluster of images;
in response to determining that the first captured image and the second captured image belong to a common cluster of images, determining an identity assignment for the first and second faces based on the first and second faces and the first and second clothing items.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/615,276Filed 13 Sep 2012 · continuation in part

Priority

9 May 2005

Published

US 2013/0121589 A116 May 2013

Granted

25 Nov 2014

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

G06F 16/53
Of still image data: querying
G06F 16/50
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: of still image data
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

Family

Application60/679,591Us provisional application · filed 9 May 2005

Application11/246,742Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Oct 2005

Application12/395,422Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 27 Feb 2009

US 2013/0121589 A1Pre-grant publication · published 16 May 2013

US 7,519,200 B2Parent of this continuation

Application12/395,422Parent of this continuation

US 2006/0251339 A1Published application

US 2009/0196510 A1Published application

US 8,649,572 B2Related patent

US 8,897,505 B2This patent

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System and method for enabling the use of captured images through recognition

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Abstract

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