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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 03, 2010
Applicants:

Ulrich Buddemeier, Venice, CA (US);

Gabriel Taubman, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Hartwig Adam, Marina del Rey, CA (US);

Charles Rosenberg, Cupertino, CA (US);

Hartmut Neven, Malibu, CA (US);

David Petrou, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Fernando Brucher, Irvine, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ulrich Buddemeier, Venice, CA (US);

Gabriel Taubman, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Hartwig Adam, Marina del Rey, CA (US);

Charles Rosenberg, Cupertino, CA (US);

Hartmut Neven, Malibu, CA (US);

David Petrou, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Fernando Brucher, Irvine, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing queries made up of images. In one aspect, a method includes indexing images by image descriptors. The method further includes associating descriptive n-grams with the images. In another aspect, a method includes receiving a query, identifying text describing the query, and performing a search according to the text identified for the query.


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