Patent ID: 8775417

Claim:
A method of searching, with a user via a user interface, a database containing data items in a descriptor space, the method comprising the steps of: selecting, via the user interface, a reference set of four reference images corresponding to four data items in the descriptor space; obtaining descriptor coordinates for each of the four reference data items; identifying a search results set of plural images corresponding to plural data items in the database which are close to one or more members of the reference set data items in the descriptor space; and displaying on a display (i) the four reference set images at respective four corners of the display, with distances therebetween, and (ii) the search results set plural images on the display between the four corners of the display, such that respective two-dimensional distances on the display between each of the four displayed reference set images and each of the plural displayed search results images corresponds to their respective closeness in the descriptor space.