Digital image search system and method
First Claim
1. A method for matching an unknown image of a first individual with an image of another individual that is a twin in appearance to the first individual, the method comprising:
- analyzing an unknown facial image at a server to determine if the unknown facial image is acceptable;
processing the unknown facial image to create a processed image;
comparing the processed image to a plurality of database processed images;
matching the processed image to a database processed image of the plurality of database processed images to create matched twin images, wherein the database processed image is a facial image of another individual that is a twin in appearance to the first individual;
determining a perception value of the matched images;
sorting matches based on predicted human perception to generate a best matched images; and
transmitting the best matched images and the perception value.
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Abstract
A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of an unknown twin using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors.
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15 Claims
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1. A method for matching an unknown image of a first individual with an image of another individual that is a twin in appearance to the first individual, the method comprising:
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analyzing an unknown facial image at a server to determine if the unknown facial image is acceptable; processing the unknown facial image to create a processed image; comparing the processed image to a plurality of database processed images; matching the processed image to a database processed image of the plurality of database processed images to create matched twin images, wherein the database processed image is a facial image of another individual that is a twin in appearance to the first individual; determining a perception value of the matched images; sorting matches based on predicted human perception to generate a best matched images; and transmitting the best matched images and the perception value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for matching images, the method comprising:
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processing a digital facial image at an image classification server to create a primary feature vector for the digital facial image; comparing the primary feature vector to a plurality of database feature vectors, each of the plurality of database feature vectors corresponding to a database processed image; obtaining matched twin images from the primary feature vector and database feature vectors; sorting the matched twin images based on predicted human perception; determining the best matched twin images. - View Dependent Claims (13)
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14. A method of matching an unknown facial image of a first individual with an image of another individual that is a twin in appearance to the first individual, the method comprising:
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analyzing an unknown facial image of a first individual at a server to determine if the unknown facial image is acceptable; processing the unknown facial image to create a processed image; comparing the processed image to a plurality of database processed images; matching the processed image to a database processed image of the plurality of database processed images to create matched images, wherein the database processed image is a facial image of another individual from the another individual'"'"'s web page of a publicly available website, the web page containing personal information of the individual and a uniform resource locator for the web page; transmitting the database processed image, the personal information of the individual and the uniform resource locator for the web page. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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