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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2006
Patrick Chiu, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Bee Yian Liew, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andreas Girgensohn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Martin Van Den Berg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick Chiu, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Bee Yian Liew, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andreas Girgensohn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Martin van den Berg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, San Francisco, CA (US);
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method to make effective use of display space. In an embodiment of the invention, given a heterogeneous set of images along with metadata or nearby text, similar images are recursively clustered into a k-tree using the k-means algorithm. In an embodiment of the invention, the invention is particularly useful for showing image search results on small mobile devices.