Patent ID: 11880405
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. The computer implemented method of claim 15, wherein the value of the respective similarity measure of the respective image being dependent on the respective hash value of the respective image and a hash value of a respective reference image, the hash value of the respective reference image being computed by means of the respective perceptual hash function, and the computer implemented method further comprising computing the value of the respective similarity measure of the query image on the basis of based on the hash value of the respective reference image and a hash value of the query image, the hash value of the query image being computed by means of the respective perceptual hash function, wherein the respective similarity measure of the respective image and the respective similarity measure of the query image are each a distance measure, the respective similarity measure of the respective image indicating a respective distance of the respective hash value of the respective image to the hash value of the respective reference image, and the respective similarity measure of the query image indicating a distance of the hash value of the query image to the hash value of the respective reference image.