IP Library Granted Patent US 12699730
Granted Patent B2
US 12699730 · App. 18/780,439 · Granted Aug 4, 2026

Method and system for facilitating keyword-based searching in images

Inventors: Sandeep Singh Kohli (Ambala City, IN); Jitin Talwar (Panchkula, IN)
Assignee: XLScout XLPat LLC
G06F16/5846G06F16/532G06F16/5866G06F40/58G06V10/242G06V30/416
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12699730
App. No.
18/780,439
Granted
Aug 4, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Technologies are generally described for a system to extract description of reference numerals in images and facilitate keyword-based search in images. In various examples, the system may include one or more databases, a computer readable memory, and one or more processors. The system may be configured to extract one or more reference numerals from an image, and identify and extract corresponding description of the one or more reference numerals from a description document corresponding to the image. The system may be further configured to extract text from the images, and store the images in a database with the extracted data, i.e., text, reference numerals, and corresponding descriptions. The system may be further configured to receive an input query intending to search images related to a search logic of the input query, search a database to identify an image including either of text or a reference numeral having a corresponding description that corresponds to the search logic of the input query, and render the identified image via a display device executing the output interface.

Claims (9)

1 . A computer implemented method to extract description of reference numerals in images, text from images, and facilitate keyword-based searching in images, the method comprising:

retrieving an image from a first database;

processing the image to extract a first set of one or more reference numerals depicted in the image, wherein processing the image to extract the first set of one or more reference numerals comprises:

rotating the image in a plane of the image about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the image thereby changing an orientation of the image, and

extracting the one or more reference numerals written in the image in each orientation of the image;

extracting the description of each reference numeral of the first set of one or more reference numerals; and

displaying each reference numeral of the first set of one or more reference numerals along with the corresponding description of each reference numeral of the first set of one or more reference numerals on a display device.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising a user inputting the image to the first database.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of extracting the description of each reference numeral comprises processing the images using techniques such as, but not limited to, optical character recognition, scanning, big databases, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, and large language models (LLM).