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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2015
Sony Corporation, Minato-ku, JP;
Alan Hogg Turner, Basingstoke, GB;
Jonathan Richard Thorpe, Winchester, GB;
Thomas Hugh Pierce, Fleet, GB;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of producing the results of a search for content for display on a client is described. The method comprises: identifying a plurality of objects of interest; uploading an image of each of the plurality of objects to a server; uploading captured content to the server, the captured content including the plurality of objects; performing, on the server, recognition of each of the objects in the captured content; generating a confidence score indicating the probability of each of the recognized objects being present in the content; receiving, from the client, an object selection, wherein the results of the search are arranged on the basis of the selected object; and generating the results of the search on the server for downloading to the client for display on the client, wherein a representation of the captured content is located between a representation of the selected object and another of the plurality of objects, the distance between the representation of the captured content and the plurality of objects being determined in accordance with the confidence score.