Patent ID: 8462224
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: G06F,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving query data including an image of a person; detecting a face of the person in the image to create a detected face; generating face data and clothing data using the detected face, wherein the face data includes a measure of characteristics of the face and the clothing data includes a measure of characteristics of the clothing of the person; using the face data and the clothing data of the person along with face data and clothing data of other people contained in at least one of images and videos to determine a subset of people who co-appear with the person at least a predetermined number of times or for a predetermined period of time, wherein the subset of people comprise a related group of people to the person; and retrieving content in which the person co-appears with at least one person of the related group of people.