Patent ID: 8589410
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a processor in communication with computer-readable storage media; an index maintained in the computer-readable storage media, the index comprising image data that describes one or more first shape-descriptors, including first edgel-based representations, of each of a plurality of images, a query receiving component that receives a visual input as a search query; a query parser that converts the visual input into at least one second shape-descriptor, including a second edgel-based representation, a visual input matching component that matches the one or more first shape-descriptors, including the first edgel-based representations, of the plurality of images with the at least one second shape-descriptor, including the second edgel-based representation, of the visual input from the search query to identify at least one matching image of the plurality of images.