Patent Document ID: 9633048
Application ID: 14941955

Base Claim:
1. A method for converting a text sentence into an image sentence, the method comprising: receiving a text sentence comprising a plurality of text words, the plurality of text words including at least one verb phrase; identifying at least one semantic role associated with the at least one verb phrase; querying an image database for a single image associated with information matching at least one semantic role, the querying including generating a first feature vector of first candidate images in the image database and comparing the first feature vector to the at least one semantic role associated with the at least one verb phrase; responsive to determining that no single image is associated with information matching the semantic role, splitting the text sentence into a first sentence fragment and a second sentence fragment, each of the first sentence fragment and the second sentence fragment associated with at least one semantic role; and querying the image database for a first image associated with information matching the at least one semantic role of the first sentence fragment and a second image associated with information matching the at least one semantic role of the second sentence fragment, the querying including generating a second feature vector for second candidate images and comparing the second feature vector to the at least one semantic roles of the first sentence fragment and the second sentence fragment.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first sentence fragment and the second sentence fragment includes an adjunct associated with at least one verb phrase.