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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2001
John Carlton Platt, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jonathan Kagle, Redmond, WA (US);
Hagai Attias, Seattle, WA (US);
Victoria Elizabeth Milton, Woodinville, WA (US);
John Carlton Platt, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jonathan Kagle, Redmond, WA (US);
Hagai Attias, Seattle, WA (US);
Victoria Elizabeth Milton, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for organizing media objects in a database using contextual information for a media object and known media objects, categories, indexes and searches, to arrive at an inference for cataloging the media object in a database. The media object may then be cataloged in the database according to the inference. A method and apparatus are provided for clustering media objects by forming groups of unlabeled data and applying a distance metric to said group.