Patent ID: 7565139

Claim:
A method for updating object representations in an image database, the method comprising: receiving an image of an object from a client device associated with a user, the receiving of the image constituting a first user query for information related to the object; recognizing the object using an image recognition engine and an image database, the image database storing object identifiers in association with objects; associating, from the image database, an object identifier with the recognized object; transmitting to the client device associated with the user, information related to the recognized object; receiving an indication of whether the user accepted the transmitted information as being relevant to the object; and responsive to a computed confidence measure of the recognition of the object exceeding a given threshold, storing the image of the object in the image database in association with the object identifier; wherein the confidence measure is computed at least in part based on the indication that the user accepted the transmitted information as being relevant to the object.