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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2007
Qing Yu, Beijing, CN;
Shuming Shi, Beijing, CN;
Zhiwei LI, Beijing, CN;
Ji-rong Wen, Beijing, CN;
Wei-ying MA, Beijing, CN;
Qing Yu, Beijing, CN;
Shuming Shi, Beijing, CN;
Zhiwei Li, Beijing, CN;
Ji-Rong Wen, Beijing, CN;
Wei-Ying Ma, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for determining relevance of a document having text and images to a text string is provided. A scoring system identifies image text associated with an image of the document. The scoring system calculates an image score indicating relevance of the image text to the text string. The image score may be used in many applications, such as searching, summary generation, and document classification, image search, and image classification.