Patent ID: 9639559
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: deriving, by a processor, partial-image search criteria that comprise a combination of multiple partial-image user selections of portions of at least one image; detecting a user dragging, using an input device, a partial-image search preference indicator onto at least a portion of one of the multiple partial-image user selections; determining a ranking indication associated with the partial-image search preference indicator; reordering the multiple partial-image user selections based upon the determined ranking indication associated with the partial-image search preference indicator; and returning, responsive to a search for images that correspond to the derived partial-image search criteria, visual search results that comprise at least one identified image that comprises features that correspond to the derived partial-image search criteria that comprise the combination of the multiple partial-image user selections.