Patent Document ID: 9600496
Application ID: 14850275

Base Claim:
1. A method for performing an image search using semantic entities, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more computing devices having one or more processors, a target image as a search query; identifying, by the one or more processors, at least one similar image that has at least one feature in common with the target image, the at least one similar image associated with one or more semantic entities, wherein each semantic entity defines a concept with a particular ontology; determining, by the one or more processors, at least one likely semantic entity to describe the target image using the one or more semantic entities associated with the at least one similar image; and using, by the one or more processors, the at least one likely semantic entity to provide search results for the target image.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one similar image includes a plurality of images similar to the target image, and the method further comprises: identifying a most frequently occurring semantic entity from all of the semantic entities associated with the plurality of images, and wherein the most frequently occurring semantic entity is determined to be the at least one likely semantic entity.