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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
May. 21, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Li Huang, Redmond, WA (US);
Meenaz Merchant, Redmond, WA (US);
Houdong Hu, Redmond, WA (US);
Arun Sacheti, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A visual search system detects one or more user-selected objects represented in an image. A first group of attributes for the user-selected objects is identified. A category for the user-selected objects is identified, and a second group of pre-defined attributes associated with the category is retrieved. The first and second groups of attributes are combined into an attributes set. The combined set of attributes are presented to the user. The user selects one or more attributes and a search is performed to identify images similar to the user-selected attributes. The images are ranked and a subset is presented to the user.