METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUERY REFINEMENT

Patent №

US 6,415,282

Granted

2002-07-02

Filed 1998

Owner

NEC USA, INC.

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · vision · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09064062

A method and apparatus for providing a user interface for refining a query applied to a database of images, where a Query Result Visualization Environment allows the user to organize the search results using various techniques. For example, the search results may be clustered on the basis of text, image or URL. The members of the resulting clusters may then be utilized by the user to refine the query to be applied to the database of images.

Machine learningNatural languageVisionKnowledge representationAI hardwareG06F 16/58G06F 16/5838G06F 16/5854Y10S 707/913Y10S 707/914Y10S 707/99933Y10S 707/99936

AI classification

Vision1.00
Machine learning0.99
AI hardware0.99
Natural language0.98
Knowledge representation0.97
Planning0.31
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

NEC USA, INC.

assignment · 91390989

Assignors

MUKHERJEA, SOUGATA, HIRATA, KYOGI, HARA, YOSHINORI

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

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