Patent ID: 9489401
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K

Claim Text:
1. An object identification method comprising: providing one or more databases which contain: populating the corpus of reference images, at least in part, by one or more crawler processes, each configured to traverse a corresponding selected subset of the internet, to identify and extract reference images comprising reference objects, and to analyze image-associated content to determine the corresponding text description of the reference object comprised within each extracted reference image; updating the image query resolution data structures to incorporate records for the extracted reference images; receiving a query comprising an input image which includes a query object; for each of one or more applicable search algorithms selected from the set of predetermined search algorithms, generating a query image descriptor of the input image and searching the corresponding image query resolution data structure to identify a closest match record corresponding with the query image descriptor; selecting a best available match record from the closest match records identified in the image query resolution data structures; retrieving the text description associated with the reference image corresponding with the best available match record; and providing, as an output object identification, the retrieved text description.