Patent ID: 7962468

Claim:
A method for improving image labeling using content-based image retrieval, the method comprising: selecting an image query; identifying a first image related to said image query based on an association between the first image and the image query, wherein the first image corresponds to a primary result; retrieving a plurality of second images related to said first image, wherein the second images correspond to secondary results relative to the primary result; assigning weights to the first image and said plurality of second images on the basis of the association between the first image and the image query and a similarity of the plurality of second images to the first image; transmitting said first image and said second images to one or more client devices associated with a plurality of users; receiving one or more selections of the transmitted first and second images in association with the image query from the one or more client devices; determining a relevancy of the first image to the image query and a relevancy for each of the plurality of second images to the image query according to respective amounts of the one or more selections received for the transmitted first image and the plurality of second images in association with the image query; determining an adjustment based on a discrepancy between the determined relevancies and the corresponding weights assigned to the first and second images in the one or more selections; and updating the association between the first image and the image query based on the adjustment.