IMAGE RETRIEVAL
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- receiving query data including an image of a person, and detecting a face of the person in the image to create a detected face;
generating face data and clothing data using the detected face including a measure of characteristics of the face and clothing of the person; and
retrieving images and video for the person and a related group of people by comparing the face data and clothing data of the person with multiple measures for the characteristics of faces and clothing generated from a set of images and video in which other people appear, wherein co-appearances of the person with at least some of the other people are used to retrieve content in which the person and people from the related group appear.
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Abstract
A method, comprising receiving query data including an image of a person, and detecting a face of the person in the image to create a detected face, generating face data and clothing data using the detected face including a measure of characteristics of the face and clothing of the person, and retrieving images and video for the person and a related group of people by comparing the face data and clothing data of the person with multiple measures for the characteristics of faces and clothing generated from a set of images and video in which other people appear wherein co-appearances of the person with at least some of the other people are used to retrieve content in which the person and people from the related group appear.
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15 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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receiving query data including an image of a person, and detecting a face of the person in the image to create a detected face; generating face data and clothing data using the detected face including a measure of characteristics of the face and clothing of the person; and retrieving images and video for the person and a related group of people by comparing the face data and clothing data of the person with multiple measures for the characteristics of faces and clothing generated from a set of images and video in which other people appear, wherein co-appearances of the person with at least some of the other people are used to retrieve content in which the person and people from the related group appear. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An image retrieval system comprising:
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at least one image capture device to generate image data representing a set of video and still images of a predetermined area; and an image analysis module to; generate representative image frames from the video; detect people appearing in the representative frames and still images in the set, and create a set of detected faces for the detected people; and generate face data and clothing data for the detected people including characteristics of the detected faces and clothing of the people; receive query data including at least one image of a user; detect a user face therein; and generate user face data and clothing data including characteristics of the face and clothing of the user therefrom; and a feature matching module to; retrieve images and/or video from the set of the user and a related group of people by comparing the user face and clothing data with the face and clothing data for the detected people. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-readable medium storing computer-readable program instructions arranged to be executed on a computer, the instructions comprising:
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to provide query data including an image of a person; to detect the face of the person in the image to create a detected face; to generate face data and clothing data from the image using the detected face including a measure of characteristics of the face and clothing of the person; and to retrieve image data for the person and an associated group of people by comparing the face data and clothing data of the person with measures for the characteristics of faces and clothing generated from raw image data captured using at least one device of an image capture network. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. An image and video content retrieval apparatus, comprising:
a memory storing computer-readable instructions; and a processor coupled to the memory, to execute the instructions, and based at least in part on the execution of the instructions, to perform operations including; to retrieve content captured using a network of image capture devices disposed to image a predetermined area by using a measure of the characteristics of the face and clothing of a user to determine content in which the user appears;
to retrieve content in which the user consistently appears with at least one other person; andto retrieve content of the least one other person.
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