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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2016
Applicant:
National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Llc, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan T. McClain, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Fredrick Rothganger, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Assignee:
National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/583 (2019.01); G06K 9/72 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/5846 (2019.01); G06K 9/00456 (2013.01); G06K 9/344 (2013.01); G06K 9/726 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and computer system for searching a collection of documents. The method comprises first identifying text in the document and then identifying an image in the document. Then the features of the image are extracted from the document and image terms are identified from the features. Finally, the collection of documents is searched using the image terms in conjunction with text terms.