Patent Document ID: 20010024517
Application ID: 09726023
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. Method of seeking images, from an example image, from amongst a plurality of images stored in a database, each of the stored images being associated with a data item of a first type, referred to as an index of the stored image, representing at least one characteristic of the visual content of the image, said method comprising the following steps: receiving a data item of a second type representing the location of at least one region of interest in the example image; for each region of interest, ROI r, receiving a data item of a third type, V r, indicative of a type of taking into account of the content of the said region of interest for the seeking of images; calculating a data item of a fourth type, referred to as the index of the example image, representing at least one characteristic of the visual content of the example image, the method of calculating said data item of the fourth type depending on said data item of the second type and said data items of the third type; calculating a similarity between the example image and each of the images amongst at least one subset of the stored images, said similarity being calculated from said data item of the first type associated with the stored image and the data item of the fourth type associated with the example image; supplying at least one image, referred to as the result image, in the database, said at least one result image being selected from amongst said stored images in the database according to its degree of similarity with said example image.