METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ANNOTATING IMAGES

Patent №

US 8,065,313

Granted

2011-11-22

Filed 2006

Owner

GOOGLE, INC.

AI components

4

ml · nlp · vision · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11492485

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that automatically annotates an image. During operation, the system receives the image. Next, the system extracts image features from the image. The system then identifies other images which have similar image features. The system next obtains text associated with the other images, and identifies intersecting keywords in the obtained text. Finally, the system annotates the image with the intersecting keywords.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Vision1.00
Machine learning0.99
Planning0.98
Speech0.42
AI hardware0.29
Knowledge representation0.04
Evolutionary computation0.01

Ownership

GOOGLE, INC.

assignment · 180920406

Assignors

YAGNIK, JAY N.

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

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