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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2021
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Christopher J. Vollmar, Mississauga, CA;

Joseph W. Dain, Vail, AZ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/58 (2019.01); G06F 16/587 (2019.01); G06F 18/24 (2023.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/5866 (2019.01); G06F 16/587 (2019.01); G06F 18/24 (2023.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01);
Abstract

Provided is a computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for detecting and processing a duplicate scene. A processor may receive image data from a plurality of images of a scene into a storage system, the image data including inference labels and contextual information associated with each of the plurality of images. The processor may detect, based on the inference labels and contextual information, that one or more images of the plurality of images is a duplicate of the scene. The processor may execute, in response to detecting that the one or more images of the plurality of images is the duplicate of the scene, an action related to the plurality of images.


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