Patent Document ID: 8200648
Application ID: 12376787

Base Claim:
1. A method for determining signal similarity between a query signal and a reference signal via composition, the method comprising: searching said reference signal to detect at least one matching region to a region of said query signal, the shape and size of said matching region being determined as a function of a local evidence score for said region, wherein said local evidence score is a function at least of a quality of the match of said region and of its statistical significance; and composing at least part of said query signal from at least one said matching region which provides at least one of: local evidence scores and a global evidence score for said query signal; wherein said global evidence score defines the extent of a global similarity of said query signal to said reference signal.

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Claim 6:
6. The method according to claim 1 and also comprising recognizing items in said query signal as items in said reference signal using at least said global evidence scores, wherein said items are objects when said query signal is an image, said items are speech when said query signal is an audio signal and said items are speakers when said query signal is an audio signal.