System and Method for Compiling Images from a Database and Comparing the Compiled Images with Known Images

• US 20090110298A1
• Filed: 12/31/2008
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Seeber, Rene
• Application Number:
  US12/346,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20090110298A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/218
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A method and system for discovering from a database an object which is confusingly similar with a known object. A database, such as the internet, is searched for objects which, when discovered, may be duplicated and stored. A determination is then made if any object from the database is confusingly similar with a known object. A computer-readable storage medium storing program for causing a processing system to perform the steps of duplicating objects from a database to produce duplicated objects; storing the duplicated produce to produce stored duplicated objects; and determining if any stored duplicated object is confusingly similar with a known object.

Claims

1. A computer program product for searching a network to identify a target object that is similar to a known object, said computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage media;

first program instructions to search a network for target objects;

second program instructions to determine if one of said target objects is similar to a known object by comparing, at more than one point of said one target object, a mathematical template associated with pixels of the known object to a matrix of numbers derived from pixels from said one target object; and

wherein

said first, second and third program instructions are stored on said computer readable storage media.

2. A computer program product as set forth in claim 1 wherein said mathematical template is associated with pixels that are based on a full-size of the known object.

3. A computer program product as set forth in claim 2 wherein the pixels from said one target object comprise pixels associated with a scaled version of an entirety of said one target object.

4. A computer program product as set forth in claim 1 wherein the pixels associated with the known object comprise pixels associated with a full-size of said known object.

5. A computer program product as set forth in claim 4 wherein the full-size of said known object comprises a complete area of pixels of said known object.

6. A computer program product as set forth in claim 5 wherein each pixel of said known object and said one target object comprises three numbers representing red, green and blue.

7. A computer program product as set forth in claim 1 wherein said one target object comprises a graphical image.

8. A computer program product as set forth in claim 1 wherein said one target object comprises a video image.