Generating and displaying an image tour in response to a user search query

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8943074
APP PUB NO 20140222781A1
SERIAL NO

13759411

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A method, system and a computer program product for generating an image tour in response to a search query in one or more multimedia databases includes determining information corresponding to a first and last image of the image tour by conducting an analysis of the search query. Based on this information, the first and last images satisfying a first pre-defined criteria are identified from the multimedia database. At least one intermediate image satisfying a second pre-defined criteria is identified from one or more videos of the multimedia database based on the identified first and last images. The image tour is generated by placing the identified intermediate images between the first and last images.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Rakshit, Sarbajit K Kolkata, IN 1755 5556

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