Patent ID: 8755610
Filing Date: 2014-06-17
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: analyzing, by a digital image management application, a digital image to identify an object; in response to identifying the object, generating a particular object descriptor that indicates one or more features of the object; comparing the particular object descriptor with each of a plurality of pre-defined object descriptors, wherein each of the plurality of pre-defined object descriptors was generated by a descriptor generating program that executed separately from and remotely relative to the digital image management application, a first match threshold is used to determine if the particular object descriptor matches object descriptors of the plurality pre-defined of object descriptors; comparing the particular object descriptor against each of a plurality of locally generated object descriptors, wherein each of the plurality of locally generated object descriptors was generated by the digital image management application, a second match threshold is used to determine if the particular object descriptor matches object descriptors in the plurality of locally generated object descriptors; in response to determining that the particular object descriptor matches a first object descriptor of the plurality of pre-defined object descriptors or the plurality of locally generated object descriptors, identifying an object identifier that is stored in association with the first object descriptor; and causing the object identifier to be displayed; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices, and the first match threshold is different than the second match threshold.