Patent Document ID: 7925650
Application ID: 11495847
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image management method comprising: storing a plurality of images using storage circuitry; for each image: processing the image, by a processor, on a pixel-by-pixel basis to determine a color of each of a plurality of pixels of the image, resulting in a plurality of colors of the image, where each color of the image is the color of at least one pixel of the image; associating, by the processor, for each pixel, the color of each pixel a human comprehensible lexical color name descriptive of the color of the pixel; and, for each color of the image, determining, by the processor, an extent to which the color is present within the image based on a number of pixels of the image that have the color; storing, by the processor, a plurality of representations for respective ones of the images, and wherein the representations individually comprise data corresponding to a plurality of human comprehensible words of a human readable lexicon and descriptive of respective characteristics of content of the respective image, wherein, for each image, the words are descriptive of each color present within the image, wherein, for each image, the representation further includes numeric data for each color present within the image indicating the extent to which the color is present within the image; associating respective ones of the representations with respective ones of the images, by the processor; accessing search criteria, by the processor; comparing the search criteria with the representations, by the processor; identifying a selected one of the images responsive to the comparing, by the processor; and accessing the selected one of the images from the storage circuitry after the identifying, by the processor.