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
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AI components
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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.
AI classification
Ownership
SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA, INC.
assignment · 90140771
Assignors
QIAN, RICHARD J., SEZAN, M. IBRAHIM
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