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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2009
Keshav Menon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Max Delgadillo, Salinas, CA (US);
Sunil Ramesh, San Jose, CA (US);
Gd Ramkumar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Keshav Menon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Max Delgadillo, Salinas, CA (US);
Sunil Ramesh, San Jose, CA (US);
Gd Ramkumar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
A9.com, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and system for image matching. The method includes receiving a query image at a query-server. Further, the method includes, sending a request to one or more image-matching servers of a set of distributed image-matching servers to conduct an image-search corresponding to the query image. Furthermore, the method includes receiving at the query-server, a list of identified matches from the image-matching servers corresponding to the query image, wherein the list of matches is identified based on the image-search at the image-matching servers. Moreover, the method includes selecting one or more matches from the list of identified matches based on a score corresponding to the identified matches.