Patent ID: 9008446
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented process that finds one or more images of sought image characteristics, comprising: obtaining a set of images; receiving user-selected example images from the set of images with sought visual image characteristics; interactively learning one or more weighted user-created rules for ranking images based only on the visual image characteristics of the user-selected example images that each rule matches and each rule rejects via a machine learning technique using a set of image histograms for each image of the image set, the overall structure of each image of the image set and the texture of each image of the image set, wherein each rule is based on learning a distance metric which computes a score for each image returned in the set of images that indicates how similar each image returned in the set of images is to the examples of images with image characteristics sought comprising: