Patent Document ID: 20120158739
Application ID: 12968796
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for multimedia information retrieval comprising: querying a multimedia collection with a first component of a multimedia query to generate first comparison measures between the first query component and respective objects in the collection for a first media type; querying at least a part of the multimedia collection with a second component of the multimedia query to generate second comparison measures between the second query component and respective objects in the collection for a second media type; computing an aggregated score for each of a set of objects in the collection based on the first comparison measure and the second comparison measure for the object, the computing comprising applying an aggregating function to the first and second comparison measures in which a first confidence weighting is applied to the first comparison measure and a second confidence weighting is applied to the second comparison measure, the first confidence weighting is independent of the second comparison measure and the second confidence weighting is dependent on the first comparison measure; and outputting information based on the aggregated scores.