Patent ID: 9384281
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of defining input to an image-based search engine, comprising the steps of: displaying an image on a screen; detecting a plurality of points touched by a user on the image, each of the points representing a respective location along a profile of an object that is fragmentarily displayed in the image; extrapolating the fragmentarily displayed image of the object beyond at least one border of the screen to thereby produce an extrapolated image of the object, the extrapolating being dependent upon the detecting step; inputting the extrapolated image of the object to an image-based search engine; detecting hand gestures and/or voice inputs from the user indicating relative weightings to be assigned various elements of the object in an image-based search by the image-based search engine; performing the image-based search based in part on the relative weightings; and providing color coded feedback to the user to confirm the relative weightings indicated by the detected hand gestures.