Patent Document ID: 9424277
Application ID: 14529710

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: identifying, by one or more computers, an image in a first storage system; determining, by the one or more computers, whether a second storage system includes an entry for the image identifying a region of interest in the image; when the second storage system does not include an entry for the image, identifying, by the one or more computers, a region of interest for the image; performing, by the one or more computers, one or more transforms on the identified region of interest in order to identify one or more aspects of the identified region of interest.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the identified region of interest includes: segmenting the image into a plurality of regions of interest, each region of interest of the plurality of regions of interest containing content associated with one or more actual features of a physical object; and extracting at least one physical descriptor from the content for the identified region of interest as a feature vector, each physical descriptor corresponding to one or more actual features of a given physical object in the identified region of interest, wherein the feature vector describes the one or more aspects.