Patent ID: 9569697
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T

Claim:
1. A computer implemented method comprising: segmenting an image into regions of one or more objects in the image and storing object locator information for the regions of the image corresponding to each instance of the one or more objects; subsegmenting at least one of the one or more objects into component regions and storing sub-object locator information for the respective component regions; classifying the component regions into respective sub-object classifications; receiving a selection of a representative portion of the image from a user; matching the representative portion with the sub-object locator information to determine at least one-matched sub-object classification from the sub-object classifications; presenting the user with one or more of the at least one matched sub-object classification; and receiving a user request to apply one or more edit operations to at least one sub-object represented by the matched sub-object classification.