Patent ID: 9031960
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors and from a client device, data specifying a query image; requesting, by the one or more processors and in response to receiving the data specifying the query image, text labels associated with the query image from a database of text labels that have been associated with images; determining that fewer than a specified number of high confidence text labels are received in response to the request, a high confidence text label being a text label having at least a minimum specified confidence measure, the determining comprising determining that a null set of high confidence text labels were received in response to the request for text labels; in response to the determination that fewer than the specified number of high confidence text labels are received, sending a request for a text search query to the client device; receiving, by the one or more processors and in response to the request for a text search query, a text search query from the client device; and associating, by the one or more processors, the received text search query with the query image in the database of text labels.