Patent ID: 7146380

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for extracting information from digital image data comprised of semantic units, comprising: (a) defining a data object network by selecting a plurality of semantic units from said digital image data, wherein a semantic cognition network comprises said data object network, a class object network and a processing object network, wherein said class object network comprises categories of classifications of said selected semantic units, wherein said semantic cognition network is implemented on a distributed network of computers and uses a set of algorithms to process said selected semantic units; (b) defining a processing object in said processing object network by selecting a data domain in said data object network, a class domain in said class object network and an algorithm from said set of algorithms, wherein said processing object comprises said data domain, said class domain and said algorithm; and (c) processing said selected semantic units in said processing object network using said processing object, wherein said processing said selected semantic units is used to display a picture region from the digital image data, and wherein the picture region includes semantic units from said data object network that fall within a classification of said class object network.