US 12,079,267 B2
Method and system for image searching and evaluation using tags
Kazunari Kawabata, Port Washington, NY (US); Nikita Spirin, Natick, MA (US); Vladimir Chernykh, Moscow (RU); German Novikov, Moscow (RU); and Junko Tajima, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/429,586
Filed by CANON U.S.A., INC., Melville, NY (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 20, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/018973
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/172366, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/808,671, filed on Feb. 21, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/808,706, filed on Feb. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0114207 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/583 (2019.01); G06F 16/535 (2019.01); G06F 16/58 (2019.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/776 (2022.01); G06V 10/80 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 16/583 (2019.01) [G06F 16/535 (2019.01); G06F 16/5866 (2019.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/776 (2022.01); G06V 10/809 (2022.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing method comprising:
obtaining an image captured by an image capturing apparatus;
determining characteristic data of the captured image based on inputting the obtained image into an image analysis model trained with images including a predetermined type of characteristic data;
identifying, based on the determination performed by the image analysis model, [,] metadata including a numeric value regarding the predetermined type of the captured image;
updating the captured image with the identified metadata in a first format when the identified metadata represents a numerical value corresponding to the predetermined type of characteristic data being an image quality feature; and
updating the captured image with the identified metadata in a second format, different from the first format when the identified metadata represents a numerical value corresponding the predetermined type of characteristic being an image capture parameter associated with the image capturing apparatus that captured the image.