HIERARCHICAL METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBJECT-BASED AUDIOVISUAL DESCRIPTIVE TAGGING OF IMAGES FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, EDITING, AND MANIPULATION

Patent №

US 6,070,167

Granted

2000-05-30

Filed 1998

Owner

SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09033568

A hierarchical system for object-based audiovisual descriptive tagging of images for information retrieval, editing, and manipulation, includes: an object-based selection mechanism for selecting an object of interest in said image; hierarchical data structure generation means for generating a hierarchical data structure for said image and for associating auxiliary information with said image; and a transmission/storage mechanism for storing the image and the hierarchical data structure. A hierarchical method for object-based audiovisual descriptive tagging of images for information retrieval, editing, and manipulation, includes: selecting an object of interest in said image with an object-based selection mechanism; generating a hierarchical data structure for said image and for associating auxiliary information with said image; and transmitting/storing the image and the hierarchical data structure.

VisionH04N 21/435G06F 16/71G06F 16/748H04N 21/234318H04N 21/235H04N 21/47205G11B 27/034Y10S 707/99943

AI classification

Vision1.00
AI hardware0.04
Knowledge representation0.03
Machine learning0.01
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00

Ownership

SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA, INC.

assignment · 90140771

Assignors

QIAN, RICHARD J., SEZAN, M. IBRAHIM

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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