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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2001
Jin-soo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Hyeon-jun Kim, Sung-Nam-shi, KR;
Jin-Soo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Hyeon-Jun Kim, Sung-Nam-shi, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is a multimedia searching method and apparatus that can achieve a high performance and provide a interoperability by defining a histogram using uniformly quantized bin values as a standard histogram, and a comparative search can be performed using a search histogram having non-uniformly-quantized bin values based on the standard histogram. The non-uniformly quantized bin values of the search histogram can be determined for each application by non-uniformly combining the uniformly-quantized bin values. According to a method, the histogram is defined as a standard histogram, and a comparative search is performed by converting the standard histogram. Further, a standard histogram obtained by uniformly quantizing a given color space can be converted into a search histogram (e.g., determined for a certain application) by non-uniformly combining the bins obtained by uniformly quantizing the color space into the N partial regions.