US Patent 7865492 Semantic visual search engine

Patent 7865492 was granted and assigned to Nokia on January, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

Nokia

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7865492

Date of Patent

January 4, 2011

Patent Application Number

11237229

Date Filed

September 28, 2005

Patent Primary Examiner

John R. Cottingham

Patent abstract

An improved method, device and computer program product for enabling a system to learn, categorize and search items such as images and video clips according to their semantic meanings. According to the present invention, prominent features can be separated from low-level features in an item using supervised learning approaches. Prominent features are used to categorize and annotate new target items. Users can then use key words and/or template items for searching through the respective database.