Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Images for query answers
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Application No.: US15208345Application Date: 2016-07-12
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Publication No.: US10691746B2Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Eric Steinlauf , Grant Dasher , Matthew K. Gray , Steven D. Baker , Namrata U. Godbole , Samer Hassan Hassan , Ionut Georgescu
- Applicant: Google LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F16/58
- IPC: G06F16/58 ; G06F16/332 ; G06F16/9538 ; G06F16/951

Abstract:
Methods and systems for providing an image with an answer to a question query. A method receiving a first query that is determined to be a question query; generating a second query form the first query; causing a search of a plurality of resources of a first corpus using the second query as input, wherein the first corpus of resources are resources that include images and textual data rendered with the images; receiving data indicating a set of resources determined to be responsive to the second query; causing a search for images in the set of resources; selecting, from the set of images and based in part on the search for images in the first set of resources, an image to be provided with the answer in response to the query; and providing, by the data processing apparatus, and with the answer, the image in response to the first query.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170017668A1 IMAGES FOR QUERY ANSWERS Public/Granted day:2017-01-19
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