METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED TRUE OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RETRIEVAL
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- identifying, by one or more computers, an image in a first storage system;
determining, by the one or more computers, whether a second storage system includes an entry for the image identifying a region of interest in the image;
when the second storage system does not include an entry for the image, identifying, by the one or more computers, a region of interest for the image;
performing, by the one or more computers, one or more transforms on the identified region of interest in order to identify one or more aspects of the identified region of interest.
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Abstract
An automated and extensible system for analysis and retrieval of images based on region-of-interest (ROI) analysis of one or more true objects depicted by an image is provided. The system uses a database that is a relational or analytical database containing searchable vectors that represent the images stored in a repository. Entries in the database are created by an image locator and ROI classifier working together to locate images within the repository and extract relevant information to be stored in the ROI database. The ROI classifier analyzes objects in an image to arrive at actual features of the true object. Graphical searches are performed by the collaborative workings of an image retrieval module, an image search requestor and an ROI query module. The image search requestor is an abstraction layer that translates user or agent search requests into the language understood by the ROI query.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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identifying, by one or more computers, an image in a first storage system; determining, by the one or more computers, whether a second storage system includes an entry for the image identifying a region of interest in the image; when the second storage system does not include an entry for the image, identifying, by the one or more computers, a region of interest for the image; performing, by the one or more computers, one or more transforms on the identified region of interest in order to identify one or more aspects of the identified region of interest. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system comprising one or more computers configured to:
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identify an image in a first storage system; determine whether a second storage system includes an entry for the image identifying a region of interest in the image; when the second storage system does not include an entry for the image, identify a region of interest for the image; perform one or more transforms on the identified region of interest in order to identify one or more aspects of the identified region of interest. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A non-transistory, tangible computer readable storage medium including a program that, when executed by one or more computers, causes the one or more computers to implement a method, the method comprising:
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identifying an image in a first storage system; determining whether a second storage system includes an entry for the image identifying a region of interest in the image; when the second storage system does not include an entry for the image, identifying a region of interest for the image; performing one or more transforms on the identified region of interest in order to identify one or more aspects of the identified region of interest.
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