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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Ricoh, Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Jorge Moraleda, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Berna Erol, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jonathan J. Hull, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An MMR system for searching across multiple indexes comprises a plurality of mobile devices, a pre-processing server or MMR gateway, and an MMR matching unit, and may include an MMR publisher. The MMR matching unit receives an image query from the pre-processing server or MMR gateway and sends it to one or more of the recognition units to identify a result including a document, the page and the location on the page. The MMR matching unit includes a segmenter for segmenting received images by content type, a distributor for distributing the images to corresponding content type index tables, and an integrator for integrating recognition results. The result is returned to the mobile device via the pre-processing server or MMR gateway. The present invention also includes a number of novel methods including a method for processing content-type specific image queries and for processing queries across multiple indexes.