Patent ID: 11907281
Assignee: MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the facial recognition user input is a user input on a launch element of the GUI launching a search process for the image, the image having been obtained from a camera application or a picture library of the user device as a search image associated with the launch element,
wherein the generating the request message includes:
processing the search image,

wherein the processing the search image includes determining whether the search image has a sufficient image quality, acceptable aspect ratio, and/or an acceptable data size,
wherein the processing the search image further comprises:
in response to determining that the search image does not having the sufficient image quality, rejecting the search image from the process and displaying an error on the GUI;
in response to determining that the search image does not having the acceptable aspect ratio, processing the search image into the acceptable aspect ratio by cropping the search image to the acceptable aspect ratio; and
in response to determining that the search image does not having the acceptable data size, processing the search image through a lossless or lossy compression algorithm to reduce a data size of the search image.