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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2008
Raman Narayanan, Kirkland, WA (US);
George Moromisato, Seattle, WA (US);
Radoslav Nickolov, Bellevue, WA (US);
Raymond Ozzie, Seattle, WA (US);
Jack Ozzie, North Bend, WA (US);
Matt Augustine, Seattle, WA (US);
Ming Liu, Redmond, WA (US);
Raman Narayanan, Kirkland, WA (US);
George Moromisato, Seattle, WA (US);
Radoslav Nickolov, Bellevue, WA (US);
Raymond Ozzie, Seattle, WA (US);
Jack Ozzie, North Bend, WA (US);
Matt Augustine, Seattle, WA (US);
Ming Liu, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Queries may be issued against an image store to produce a set of image instance relating to images in the image store that relate to the query. The relevance of the images to the query may be depicted by scaling the image instances according to the predicted relevance of the image to the query. The image instances may be further positioned within the image instance set query result, e.g., by clustering according to image relatedness or by similar predicted relevance of the images to the query terms of the query. The image instances may also be presented as smoothly zoomable images, such that the user may zoom in on the images in an efficient manner that facilitates realtime, gradual zooming with reduced resampling inefficiency.