Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tag suggestions for images on online social networks
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Application No.: US14942659Application Date: 2015-11-16
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Publication No.: US09665765B2Publication Date: 2017-05-30
- Inventor: Dan Barak , Yaniv N. Taigman , Gil Hirsch , Jorn Martinus Johannes van Dijk , Dirk John Stoop
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G06K9/60
- IPC: G06K9/60 ; G06K9/00 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F17/30 ; H04L12/58 ; G06Q50/00 ; G06F3/0484

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing an image portraying at least a first person, accessing a social graph, determining a social-graph affinity for a first set of users, determining a facial-recognition scores for the first set of users based on the social-graph affinity for each user and a facial-representation associated with each user, where the facial-representation for each user is compared with the image, and generating one or more tag suggestions for the first person portrayed in the image based on the facial-recognition scores.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160070954A1 TAG SUGGESTIONS FOR IMAGES ON ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS Public/Granted day:2016-03-10
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