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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2012
James William Philbin, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Anand Pillai, Santa Monica, CA (US);
John Flynn, Marina del Ray, CA (US);
Hartwig Adam, Marina del Ray, CA (US);
James William Philbin, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Anand Pillai, Santa Monica, CA (US);
John Flynn, Marina del Ray, CA (US);
Hartwig Adam, Marina del Ray, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for a dynamic visual search engine are provided. In one example method, a criteria used to partition a set of compressed image descriptors into multiple database shards may be determined. Additionally, a size of a dynamic index may be determined. The dynamic index may represent a dynamic number of images and may be configured to accept insertion of reference images into the dynamic index that can be search against immediately. According to the method, an instruction to merge the uncompressed image descriptors of the dynamic index into the database shards of the compressed image descriptors may be received, and the uncompressed image descriptors of the dynamic index may be responsively merged into the database shards of the compressed image descriptors based on the criteria.