Patent ID: 8347206

Claim:
An image tagging system comprising: memory; a recognition component configured to receive an input comprising one or more ink annotations from a user and generate at least one string based at least in part on the input, the at least one string comprising one or more words; and a component configured to: when a first predefined gesture is received from the user, perform explicit tagging of the input, comprising: tagging an image with at least one of the one or more words; and at least one of: not storing the one or more ink annotations with the image in the memory; or erasing the one or more ink annotations from the image; and when at least one of a second predefined gesture is received from the user or the first predefined gesture is not received from the user, perform implicit tagging of the input, comprising: tagging the image with at least one of the one or more words; and storing the one or more ink annotations with the image in the memory.