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 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating includes using a perturbation generator and/or a transitive explorer generator on at least one of the one or more candidate image anchor templates.