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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2006
Pere Obrador, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nathan M. Moroney, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pere Obrador, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nathan M. Moroney, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Image management methods, image management systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, an image management method includes storing a plurality of images using storage circuitry, storing a plurality of representations for respective ones of the images, and the representations comprise data corresponding to a plurality of human comprehensible words of a human readable lexicon and descriptive of respective characteristics of content of the images, associating respective ones of the representations with respective ones of the respective one of the images, accessing search criteria, comparing the search criteria with the representations, identifying a selected one of the images responsive to the comparing, and accessing the selected one of the images from the storage circuitry responsive to the identifying.