SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PRESENT WEB IMAGE SEARCH RESULTS FOR EFFECTIVE IMAGE BROWSING

Patent №

US 7,548,936

Granted

2009-06-16

Filed 2005

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · nlp · vision · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11034443

Systems and methods to present web image search results for effective image browsing are described. In one aspect, task-based attention objects for each of multiple images associated with image search results are generated. Thumbnail images from respective ones of the images are created as a function of at least the task-based attention objects. The thumbnail images emphasize image region(s) of greater priority to a user in view of a keyword or expanded keyword associated with the search results.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Vision1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Machine learning1.00
AI hardware0.97
Evolutionary computation0.11
Planning0.08
Speech0.01

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 157100362

Assignors

LIU, HAO, MA, WEI-YING, XIE, XING, LI, ZHIWEI

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

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