Patent ID: 9542390
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K

Claim:
1. A computer implemented method comprising: receiving an indication of a face to be searched in an image set, where each image in the image set comprises a timestamp that identifies a creation date of the image, the creation date being in a continuum of successive time intervals; performing facial recognition to identify the indicated face in one or more images in a first time interval from a plurality of successive time intervals in the continuum using a positive reference set comprising one or more faces from a previous time interval that match the indicated face and a negative reference set comprising one or more faces from the previous time interval that do not match the indicated face; replacing the one or more faces from images from the previous time interval in the positive reference set with one or more faces from images from the first time interval that match the indicated face; replacing the one or more faces from images from the previous time interval in the negative reference set with one or more faces from images from the first time interval that do not match the indicated face; and performing facial recognition to identify the indicated face in one or more images in a second time interval from the plurality of successive time intervals using the positive reference set and the negative reference set, the second time interval being successive to the first time interval.