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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 24, 1997
Ronald Jason Barber, San Jose, CA (US);
Bradley James Beitel, Woodside, CA (US);
William Robinson Equitz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Myron Dale Flickner, San Jose, CA (US);
Carlton Wayne Niblack, San Jose, CA (US);
Dragutin Petkovic, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Thomas Randolph Work, San Fancisco, CA (US);
Peter Cornelius Yanker, Mountain View, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Images in an image database are searched in response to queries which include the visual characteristics of the images such as colors, textures, shapes, and sizes, as well as by textual tags appended to the images. Queries are constructed in an image query construction area in response to values of representations of the visual characteristics and to locations of the representations in the image query construction area.