Patent Document ID: 9405965
Application ID: 14642458

Base Claim:
1. A method, performed by an ingestion system including one or more servers for enrollment and web crawling, for creating a searchable database of feature vectors representing images of a faces, the method comprising: receiving an image of a face; detecting landmarks on the image of the face and associating the detected landmarks with points; subjecting the points to a transformation; aligning a portion of the image of the face in accordance with the transformation; performing texture mapping on the portion of the image of the face; computing a first vector based on the portion of the image of the face; creating a second vector based on a similarity of the first vector to each of a predetermined number of a first plurality of vectors; generating a feature vector by concatenating the second vector with a second plurality of vectors, wherein the second vector and each of the second plurality of vectors each correspond to a respective portion of the image of the face; and storing the feature vector, along with associated metadata as part of a gallery file, in a database.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein creating the second vector includes: calculating a distance of the first vector from each of the first plurality of vectors, and selecting from the calculated distances, for entry into the second vector, the predetermined number of calculated distances that are smallest.