Patent Document ID: 20010003182
Application ID: 09726513
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 said stored images being associated with a data item of a first type representing at least one characteristic of the visual content of the image, said method comprising the following steps: each time a new image is stored in said database, associating with said new image a data item of a second type representing the location of at least one region of interest in said new image; receiving a data item of the second type representing the location of at least one region of interest in said example image; obtaining a data item of said first type associated with said example image; calculating a similarity between the example image and each of the images amongst at least one subset of said stored images, the similarity being calculated from the data of the first type and of the second type associated respectively with said example image and with the stored image; and supplying at least one image, referred to as the result image, of 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 the example image.