METHOD FOR RETRIEVING IMAGE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF

• US 20160027180A1
• Filed: 07/24/2015
• Published: 01/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: IYER, Kiran Nanjunda, KUMAR, Raushan, LOKKOJU, Satish, GOPALAKRISHNAN, Viswanath, VEERA, Viswanath
• Granted Patent: US 9,886,762 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/24147 Distances to closest patterns, e.g. nearest neighbour classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20104 Interactive definition of region of interest [ROI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/11 Region-based segmentation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/143 involving probabilistic approaches, e.g. Markov random field [MRF] modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/162 involving graph-based methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 2201/10 Recognition assisted with metadata

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to image retrieval in an electronic device. An operating method of an electronic device includes determining an object included in an image and a position of extent occupied by the object in the image and retrieving at least one image including the object at the position from among a plurality of images.

Claims

1. A method for operating an electronic device, the method comprising:

determining an object included in an image and a position of extent occupied by the object in the image; and

retrieving at least one image including the object at the position from among a plurality of images.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the object and the position are determined based on at least one stroke marked by a user in the image.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is determined by a name designated by a user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the position is determined by at least one contour marked by a user.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the at least one image.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of images are associated with information on at least one object included in a corresponding image and information on at least one position of the at least one object.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one object and the corresponding position indicate semantic information of the corresponding image.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one object and the at least one position are extracted from the corresponding image by combining a supervised learning technique and an unsupervised learning technique of the corresponding image.

9. An electronic device comprising:

a controller configured to determine an object included in an image and a position of extent occupied by the object in the image and to retrieve at least one image including the object at the position from among a plurality of images.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the object and the position are determined based on at least one stroke marked by a user in the image.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the object is determined by a name designated by a user.

12. The device of claim 9, wherein the position is determined by at least one contour marked by a user.

13. The device of claim 9, further comprising:

a user interface configured to display the at least one retrieved image.

14. The device of claim 9, wherein the plurality of images are associated with information on at least one object included in a corresponding image and information on at least one position of the at least one object.

15. The device of claim 9, wherein the at least one object and the corresponding position indicate semantic information of the corresponding image.

16. The device of claim 9, wherein the at least one object and the at least one position are extracted from the corresponding image by combining a supervised learning technique and an unsupervised learning technique of the corresponding image.

17. A method of retrieving images in an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying an image;

receiving stroke inputs from a user demarcating an object and a position of extent occupied by the object in the image from the user; and

retrieving at least one image, from among a plurality of images, including the object at the position as input by the user.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the object is determined by a name designated by the user.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the position is determined by at least one contour marked by the user.