Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Alison Motinger, Esq.
  • Method and apparatus for locating multi-region objects in an image or video database
    Patent number: 6691126
    Abstract: A method (and system) for specifying the region layout of objects in an affine invariant manner as a set of affine intervals between pairs of regions, includes representing database and query regions using affine intervals along with their region identity, matching query region layout to layout of database image regions using an index structure, and retrieving relevant images of the database by hashing for dominant hit regions in the index structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood