Patent ID: 7809192

Claim:
A method for analyzing a collection of captured images, the method comprising: using one or more processors to perform steps comprising: (a) performing analysis on each image in the collection to determine analysis information that is associated with one or more images from the collection; (b) maintaining a data structure that associates the one or more individual images from the collection with the analysis information that is associated with that image; (c) identifying an object carrying a text in the one or more images from the collection; (d) making a determination that the identified text comprises only a portion of a word, including determining that the identified text is one of (i) a word that is in skew on the object of the image, or (ii) a word that appears to omit one or more letters in the image; and (e) enabling a search of the data structure using a word from the identified text as search criteria for individual images in the collection that are associated with analysis information that match or are relevant to the determined word.