Patent Document ID: 20120093375
Application ID: 13324058
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: identifying at least one named entity; retrieving a set of three or more images associated with the at least one named entity, each of the images in the set including an associated textual description that includes at least a portion of a name of the named entity; performing face detection on the retrieved images to detect faces in the retrieved images, wherein the face detection is performed using a face detection algorithm; identifying at least one representative face image from the retrieved images including comparing each detected face to other detected faces; building a face model using the representative face image including identifying a training set that includes the representative face image and all other images that match the representative face image from the set of three or more images; and using the face model to identify one or more additional images representing the at least one named entity from images not included in the set.