Patent Document ID: 8335381
Application ID: 12212964

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving a query string; generating a plurality of computer-generated image based on the query string, each of the plurality of computer-generated images being generated in a different one of a set of selected fonts, the set of fonts having been identified based on a precision of the set of fonts for retrieving word images which match at least one selected query string; training a model based on the computer generated images; scoring candidate handwritten word images of a collection of handwritten word images using the trained model; and based on the scores, identifying a subset of the word images.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the model comprises a first model which is trained on the computer-generated image and a second model which has been trained on a collection of sample handwritten word images and wherein the score of each word image is a function of a computed likelihood of the word image with respect to the first model and a computed likelihood of the word image with respect to the second model.