Patent Document ID: 9489401
Application ID: 14741186
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An object identification method comprising: providing one or more databases which contain: a corpus of reference images, each reference image comprising an identifiable reference object and being associated in the database with a corresponding text description of the reference object; and a plurality of image query resolution data structures, each comprising a collection of records wherein each record includes an image descriptor of one of the reference images, and wherein each data structure is searchable using a corresponding one of a set of predetermined search algorithms to identify a closest match record within the data structure based upon the image descriptors, populating the corpus of reference images, at least in part, by one or more crawler processes, each configured to traverse a corresponding selected subset of the internet, to identify and extract reference images comprising reference objects, and to analyze image-associated content to determine the corresponding text description of the reference object comprised within each extracted reference image; updating the image query resolution data structures to incorporate records for the extracted reference images; receiving a query comprising an input image which includes a query object; for each of one or more applicable search algorithms selected from the set of predetermined search algorithms, generating a query image descriptor of the input image and searching the corresponding image query resolution data structure to identify a closest match record corresponding with the query image descriptor; selecting a best available match record from the closest match records identified in the image query resolution data structures; retrieving the text description associated with the reference image corresponding with the best available match record; and providing, as an output object identification, the retrieved text description.