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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2012
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Dariusz T. Dusberger, Irvine, CA (US);
Bradley Scott Denney, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/68 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/4676 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for scoring similarity count a number of matching visual words between a query image and a candidate image, generate an image similarity score for the query image and the candidate image based at least in part on the number of matching visual words, and generate a normalized image similarity score based at least in part on the image similarity score and one or more of a complexity of the query image and a complexity of the candidate image.