Patent Document ID: 8285057
Application ID: 12780317

Base Claim:
1. A method of generating one or more image anchor templates for discriminating between documents of a first class and documents of other classes, said method comprising: a) generating one or more candidate image anchor templates using one or more seed image anchor templates and/or at least one of one or more exemplars of the first class; b) determining a quality score for each of the one or more candidate image anchor templates using a computer processor and the one or more exemplars of the first class; c) ranking the one or more candidate image anchor templates according to quality score; and d) selecting one or more of the most highly ranked image anchor templates.

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Claim 11:
11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: e) repeating actions a) through d) until the termination condition is met, wherein the one or more candidate image anchor templates are ranked with the one or more of the most highly ranked image anchor templates previously selected.