ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,553, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Digital image hash search techniques" was invented by Martin Schmitz (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital image hash search techniques are described. These techniques leverage clusters formed from digital image hashes that overcome limitations and computational resource consumption of conventional clustering techniques used to implement a digital image search. In an example, search techniques employ two search stages. In a first stage, clusters are identified based on the cluster centers using a distance measure. The second stage involves a comp...