Interactive multi-modal image search
US9411830B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 24, 2011 |
| Grant date | Aug 9, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 24, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/5854
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A facility for visual search on a mobile device takes advantage of multi-modal and multi-touch input on the mobile device. By extracting lexical entities from a spoken search query and matching the lexical entities to image tags, the facility provides candidate images for each entity. Selected ones of the candidate images are used to construct a composite visual query image on a query canvas. The relative size and position of the selected candidate images in the composite visual query image, which need not be an existing image, contribute to a definition of a context of the composite visual query image being submitted for context-aware visual search.
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