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Method and system for similarity-based image classification

  • US 6,269,358 B1
  • Filed: 06/16/2000
  • Issued: 07/31/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/22/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of querying a database of images, the method comprising the steps of:

  • (a) selecting at least one primary shape from a set of primary shapes as a query to be applied to the database of images;

    (b) selecting at least one of a plurality of categories of images for each of the at least one primary shape selected, the categories having been formed by calculating a similarity value between each of the images and each of the primary shapes and classifying the images into the categories based on a threshold for the similarity value, each of the categories being represented by one of the primary shapes; and

    (c) displaying ones of the images in the selected categories.

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