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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2011
Kevin W. Stokes, Shawnee, KS (US);
Kevin W. Stokes, Shawnee, KS (US);
DST Technologies, Inc., Kansas City, MO (US);
Abstract
A system for organizing a plurality of candidates based on the relative similarity of a first candidate with respect to the remaining plurality of candidates is disclosed. The system includes a controller in communication with a storage device configured to receive and accessibly store a generated plurality of candidate images. The controller operable to analyze each of the plurality of candidate images to determined a numeric thumbnail based on a number of identified features in each of a plurality of grid elements of an array and a sum total number of all identified features in the array, calculate a similarity score between one of the plurality of determined numeric thumbnails and each of the remaining plurality of determined numeric thumbnails; and generate a logical group image order as a function of the highest similarity score between the one of the plurality of determined numeric thumbnails and each of the remaining plurality of determined numeric thumbnails.