Patent ID: 9411825
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A computer implemented system for managing text distracters in a visual search, said system comprising: a handheld device accessible to a user, said handheld device comprising image capturing capabilities, said handheld device configured to capture an image, and express captured image as a query image for eliciting at least the information relevant to the captured image; a text detection module configured to process said query image and identify from processed query image, the regions having textual content, said text detection module further configured to identify from the processed query image, the regions having non-textual content; a smoothing filter configured to filter the regions identified as having textual content thereby reducing the keypoints therein, said smoothing filter configured to replace the pixels corresponding to the textual content with a first set of pixels thereby removing the textual content, said smoothing filter further configured to filter the regions having non-textual content, only in the event that said regions having non-textual content are found in proximity to the regions having textual content; a feature extraction module configured to extract a plurality of features from the regions having non-textual content; a repository configured to store a plurality of images and the features thereof, wherein the features are extracted from at least non-textual regions of the images; a comparator configured to compare the features extracted by the feature extraction module and the features corresponding to the images stored in the repository, said comparator further configured to extract from the repository the image having features that match the features extracted by the feature extraction module, said comparator still further configured to transmit the image extracted from the repository, along with associated metadata, to the handheld device accessible to the user, for display.