SEARCH SYSTEM EMPLOYING MULTIPLE IMAGE BASED SEARCH PROCESSING APPROACHES

摘要

An Internet infrastructure supports searching of images by correlating a category selection with that of plurality of images hosted in Internet based servers in selected categories. An image search server supports delivery of search result pages to a client device based upon a search image or category selection, and contains images from a plurality of Internet based web hosting servers. The image search server delivers characteristic analysis of an image to the client device upon request. The selection of images is based upon: (i) word match, that is, by selecting images, titles of which correspond to the search image; and (ii) image correlation, that is, by selecting images, image characteristics of which correlates to that of category selection. The selection of images in the search result page also occurs on the basis of popularity. The category selection server also selects category based upon user's choice.

主权项

1. An online search system that services both a plurality of web hosting servers and a plurality of user computing devices via an Internet, the online search system comprising:
a processing infrastructure configured to crawl the plurality of web hosting servers to gather a plurality of images and to associate at least one of a plurality of image characteristic with each of the plurality of images; a communication interface through which a user uploaded search image is received by the processing infrastructure; and the processing infrastructure configured to (i) analyze the user uploaded search image to identify at least one image characteristic, (ii) attempt to match the at least one image characteristic with the at least one of the plurality of image characteristics of the plurality of images so as to yield a group of visually similar images; and (iii) perform adult image recognition upon at least some of the plurality of images.