Due to the diversity and complexity of design patent images, it is difficult to retrieve well if extracting features from images directly. A design patent image retrieval method based on Gabor filter and LBP is proposed in the paper. Firstly, doing low-pass filtering to the normalized images with Gabor filter to amplify the images’ details, then extracting image’s texture feature with LBP algorithm, calculating images’ similarity according to the distance formula after feature vectors’ internal normalization, finally return several similar images. The experimental results show that this retrieval method get better retrieval accuracy and correct rate.
User-Centered Design Approaches to Integrating Intellectual Property Information into Early Design Processes with a Design Patent Retrieval Application
