Patent Document ID: 8566314
Application ID: 12062896

Base Claim:
1. A data processing system comprising: a segmentation system adapted to receive data, said segmentation system including: (a) a storage device having a plurality of different feature extraction techniques stored therein; (b) a feature extraction processor in communication with said storage device, said feature extraction processor adapted to execute at least each of the plurality of different feature extraction techniques stored in said storage device and adapted to extract one or more features from the data provided to said segmentation system; and (c) a feature extraction technique selector which selects one or more of the plurality of different feature extraction techniques based upon the type of data provided to said segmentation system; a feature classifier adapted to receive one or more features from said segmentation system and to apply a feature tag to each of the features wherein the feature tag comprises a source identifier (ID) field, a media type field, a date field, a time field, an object type field and a characteristics field and wherein the media type field is capable of specifying that the media is one of a plurality of disparate types of media including at least: image media, video media and audio media; a repository adapted to receive feature tags from said feature classifier; a search engine coupled to said repository; and a user interface coupled to said search engine.

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Claim 2:
2. The system of claim 1 wherein: said segmentation system is provided as an image segmentation system; said storage device is provided as a memory; said plurality of different feature extraction techniques stored in said memory are provided as image feature extraction techniques; said feature extraction processor is provided as an image segmentation processor adapted to execute a plurality of different image feature extraction techniques; said feature classifier is adapted to receive one or more image segments from said image segmentation processor; and said repository is provided as a database.