Generation, archiving, and retrieval of digital images with evoked suggestion-set captions and natural language interface
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1. A system for archiving and retrieving images, the system comprising:
- an ingestion center including (i) a data entry device for accepting as input an image and metadata, the metadata including bibliographic data associated with the image, a caption associated with the image and a set of suggestions evoked by the image;
(ii) a natural language processing database including a plurality of terms; and
(iii) a disambiguation processor operatively connected to the data entry device and to the natural language processing database, adapted to permit user selection of characteristics of portions of the metadata responsive to the plurality of terms;
an image center including (i) an upload processor operatively connected to the ingestion center and adapted to receive as input the image and the metadata;
(ii) a database operatively connected to the upload processor for storing the image and metadata with other images and other metadata; and
(iii) a browser operatively connected to the database for viewing a selective subset of the image and the other images responsive to correspondence of a query request with the metadata and other metadata.
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Abstract
Digitized images are associated with English language captions and other data, collectively known as the metadata associated with the images. A natural language processing database removes ambiguities from the metadata, and the images and the metadata are stored in databases. A user formulates a search query, and natural language processing is used to determine matches between the query and the stored metadata. Images corresponding to the matches are then viewed, and desired images are selected for licensing. The license terms for selected images are displayed, and a subset of the selected images are ordered as desired by the user.
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1. A system for archiving and retrieving images, the system comprising:
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an ingestion center including (i) a data entry device for accepting as input an image and metadata, the metadata including bibliographic data associated with the image, a caption associated with the image and a set of suggestions evoked by the image;
(ii) a natural language processing database including a plurality of terms; and
(iii) a disambiguation processor operatively connected to the data entry device and to the natural language processing database, adapted to permit user selection of characteristics of portions of the metadata responsive to the plurality of terms;an image center including (i) an upload processor operatively connected to the ingestion center and adapted to receive as input the image and the metadata;
(ii) a database operatively connected to the upload processor for storing the image and metadata with other images and other metadata; and
(iii) a browser operatively connected to the database for viewing a selective subset of the image and the other images responsive to correspondence of a query request with the metadata and other metadata. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A computer-implemented process for archiving and retrieving images, the process comprising:
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a) associating metadata with an image, the metadata including bibliographic data associated with the image, a caption associated with the image, and a set of suggestions evoked by the image; b) removing ambiguities from the metadata; c) storing the image and the metadata in a database with other images and other metadata; d) selecting a subset of the image and the other images responsive to correspondence of a query request with the metadata and other metadata. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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