Patent ID: 8582802
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method to generate data describing a product, the method comprising: in a special-purpose computer or a suitably programmed general-purpose computer: (a) comparing a digitized query image of the product to digitized pre-existing product images in a pre-existing product database, wherein the pre-existing product database comprises a taxonomy and an ontology, and the pre-existing product images are linked to a corresponding node in the taxonomy and also linked to attribute data and attribute value data in the ontology for each pre-existing product depicted in the pre-existing product images, wherein the taxonomy is organized according to attributes and attribute values relevant to appearance of the depicted pre-existing products and attributes and attribute values having no relevance to the appearance of the depicted pre-existing products; then (b) retrieving at least one pre-existing product image that most closely matches the query image based on at least one matching criterion selected in whole or in part by a user; and then (c) extracting from the pre-existing product database the node in the taxonomy, the attribute data, or the attribute value data linked to the pre-existing product image retrieved in step (b).