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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2004
Eric Nguyen, Rennes, FR;
Hervé Le Floch, Rennes, FR;
Stéphane Baron, Le Rheu, FR;
Canon Research Centre France, Cesson-Sevigne, FR;
Abstract
The method of verifying multimedia entities according to the invention to determine whether a first multimedia entity matches a second multimedia entity, is characterized in that it comprises a step of selecting from a plurality of second multimedia entities, by a content-based search, a set of second multimedia entities close to the first multimedia entity, and a step of deciding as to at least one match between the first multimedia entity and at least one second multimedia entity of the set of second multimedia entities, based on a comparison between the first multimedia entity and the second multimedia entities of the set.