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IMAGE SEARCH USING FACE DETECTION

  • US 20090234842A1
  • Filed: 09/08/2008
  • Published: 09/17/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for performing an image search, the method comprising:

  • receiving a query submitted by a user;

    searching for a query word in the query from an image resource using an image search engine to obtain an initial image collection;

    detecting a face in each image in the initial image collection which has been searched;

    searching for the query word in a text surrounding each image having the face in the initial image collection;

    determining whether the query word indicates at least one person'"'"'s name in the text surrounding each image matching the query word; and

    returning an image in the initial image collection to a user in which the face is included and the query word in the text surrounding each image indicates the person'"'"'s name.

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