Patent Document ID: 7848577
Application ID: 11495846
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image processing method comprising: accessing image data of a plurality of images; defining a plurality of regions in individual ones of the images, wherein the defining comprises, for each of the images, associating image forming elements of the image with respective lexical color names selected from a set of lexical color names to produce quantized image data, and processing the quantized image data to define each of the regions of image forming elements as respectively having a common characteristic that comprises an association with a consistent one of the lexical color names; comparing a given one of the images with respect to one or more other ones of the images based on color distances separating the regions of the given image from respective ones of the regions of the one or more other images, spatial distances between the regions in the given image and the respective regions in the one or more other images, and sizes of the regions in the given image and the respective regions in the one or more other images; and providing information indicative of similarities of the one image relative to the others of the images using results of the comparing wherein the accessing, the defining, the comparing, and the providing are performed by a computing device.