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Patent No.:

US 9082162 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2012

System and method for enabling image searching using manual enrichment, classification, and/or segmentation

Applicants:

Salih Burak Gokturk, Mountain View, CA (US);

Baris Sumengen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Diem VU, San Jose, CA (US);

Navneet Dalal, Bangalore, IN;

Danny Yang, Foster City, CA (US);

Xiaofan Lin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Azhar Khan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Munjal Shah, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Dragomir Anguelov, San Francisco, CA (US);

Lorenzo Torresani, Cambridge, GB;

Vincent Vanhoucke, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Salih Burak Gokturk, Mountain View, CA (US);

Baris Sumengen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Diem Vu, San Jose, CA (US);

Navneet Dalal, Bangalore, IN;

Danny Yang, Foster City, CA (US);

Xiaofan Lin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Azhar Khan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Munjal Shah, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Dragomir Anguelov, San Francisco, CA (US);

Lorenzo Torresani, Cambridge, GB;

Vincent Vanhoucke, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:

Fish & Richardson P.C.

Primary Examiner:

John Strege

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); G06F 17/3025 (2013.01); G06F 17/3028 (2013.01); G06F 17/30259 (2013.01); G06F 17/30262 (2013.01); G06F 17/30265 (2013.01); G06K 9/46 (2013.01); G06K 9/6253 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system includes an image analysis module that is configured to programmatically analyze individual images in a collection of images in order to determine information about each image in the collection. The system may also include a manual interface that is configured to (i) interface with one or more human editors, and (ii) displays a plurality of panels concurrently. Individual panels may be provided for one or more analyzed images, and individual panels may be configured to display information that is at least indicative of the one or more images of that panel and/or of the information determined from the one or more images.

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