In order to create a searchable index of the contents of a picture/video frame, piXserve:

1. automatically segments the contents of the image in a way that much resembles how a person would do it.  
   
2. creates a mathematical description of these segmented objects "on the fly", and stores these descriptions as a searcheable index.  
3. reasons about what it "saw" in the image and develops an initial level of "understanding" about the contents and context of the image.  In some cases it is able to "tag" the items with a descriptor (a "Notion").  An evolving and increasing vocabulary of Notions is available in piXserve (ex: sky, vegetation, flower, face, building, car, map, airplane, etc.)
    
4. uses calculated descriptions, Notions, relationships and context information (foreground, background, etc.) to make comparisons between a query image and images/video frames previously indexed and finds results that most closely match what the user was searching for.  

Additional key features of the piXlogic technology are:

• ability to "see" not only visual objects but also text strings on the image (language independent)
  
  
• ability to carry out complex and multi-modal search criteria (ex: find an image/video segment that contains something that looks like this item in image 1, AND/OR/NOT this item from image 2, AND/OR/NOT this specific text string anywhere in the image).
  
  
• ability to create alert criteria that notify users when content of interest to them is indexed by the system.

These features and characteristics, and more, are available in several piXlogic products:

• piXserve - A client/server product line rich in functionality and suitable for workgroups and for demanding enterprise applications:
  • piXserve-Web Edition
  • piXserve-Standard Edition
  • piXserve-Professional Edition
  • piXserve-Enterprise Edition
  • piXserve-ALERT
  • piXserve-Elastic Cloud Standard Edition (piXserve-ECs)
     
• piXsearch -  An SDK (software developer kit) which can be used to integrate visual search functionality into existing commercial applications.  The API is well-defined, comprehensive and based on industry standard interfaces.