公开(公告)号：US09195987B2

公开(公告)日：2015-11-24

申请号：US13034095

申请日：2011-02-24

申请人： Andrea Frome ,  Howard Wellington Trickey ,  Melanie Clements ,  Ethan G. Russell ,  Paul Eastlund ,  Diego Ariel Gertzenstein ,  Douglas Richard Grundman ,  Baris Yuksel

发明人： Andrea Frome ,  Howard Wellington Trickey ,  Melanie Clements ,  Ethan G. Russell ,  Paul Eastlund ,  Diego Ariel Gertzenstein ,  Douglas Richard Grundman ,  Baris Yuksel

IPC分类号： G06K9/62 ,  G06Q30/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/018

摘要： Systems and methods are provided for determining whether given business listings are spam or are closed businesses. In one example, a system receives a business listing from a user. The business listing contains a geolocation and the name of a business. The system also receives one or more street level images related to a geographic object that is at or near the same geolocation as the business listing. The system determines if the business listing is spam or is closed based on the received street level images by determining if the geographic object is the business or by analyzing whether the business associated with the listing is shown in any of the street level images.

摘要翻译： 提供系统和方法来确定给定的商业信息是垃圾邮件还是封闭的业务。 在一个示例中，系统从用户接收商业列表。 业务列表包含地理位置和业务名称。 该系统还接收与地理对象相关的一个或多个街道级图像，该地理对象处于或接近与商家列表相同的地理位置。 系统通过确定地理对象是业务还是通过分析与列表相关联的业务是否显示在任何街道级图像中，基于所接收的街道级图像来确定商家列表是垃圾邮件还是关闭。

公开(公告)号：US08577604B1

公开(公告)日：2013-11-05

申请号：US13157831

申请日：2011-06-10

申请人： Abhijit Ogale ,  Stephane Lafon ,  Andrea Frome

发明人： Abhijit Ogale ,  Stephane Lafon ,  Andrea Frome

IPC分类号： G01C21/32 ,  G01C21/26

CPC分类号： G01C21/34 ,  G01C21/26 ,  G01C21/32 ,  G01C21/3476 ,  G01C21/3602 ,  G01S5/16 ,  G01S17/08 ,  G01S19/51

摘要： Systems and methods provide approximations of latitude and longitude coordinates of objects, for example a business, in street level images. The images may be collected by a camera. An image of a business is collected along with GPS coordinates and direction of the camera. Depth maps of the images may be generated, for example, based on laser depth detection or displacement of the business between two images caused by a change in the position of the camera. After identifying a business in one or more images, the distance from the camera to a point or area relative to the business in the one or more images may be determined based on the depth maps. Using this distance and the direction of the camera which collected the one or more images and GPS coordinates of the camera, the approximate GPS coordinates of the business may be determined.

公开(公告)号：US08385593B2

公开(公告)日：2013-02-26

申请号：US13105842

申请日：2011-05-11

申请人： Shlomo Urbach ,  Tal Yadid ,  Yuval Netzer ,  Andrea Frome ,  Noam Ben-Haim

发明人： Shlomo Urbach ,  Tal Yadid ,  Yuval Netzer ,  Andrea Frome ,  Noam Ben-Haim

IPC分类号： G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/18 ,  G06K9/68

CPC分类号： G06K9/723 ,  G06F17/241 ,  G06F17/2705 ,  G06F17/30241 ,  G06K9/00664 ,  G06K2209/01

摘要： Establishments are identified in geo-tagged images. According to one aspect, text regions are located in a geo-tagged image and text strings in the text regions are recognized using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques. Text phrases are extracted from information associated with establishments known to be near the geographic location specified in the geo-tag of the image. The text strings recognized in the image are compared with the phrases for the establishments for approximate matches, and an establishment is selected as the establishment in the image based on the approximate matches. According to another aspect, text strings recognized in a collection of geo-tagged images are compared with phrases for establishments in the geographic area identified by the geo-tags to generate scores for image-establishment pairs. Establishments in each of the large collection of images as well as representative images showing each establishment are identified using the scores.

公开(公告)号：US20110311140A1

公开(公告)日：2011-12-22

申请号：US13105842

申请日：2011-05-11

申请人： Shlomo Urbach ,  Tal Yadid ,  Yuval Netzer ,  Andrea Frome ,  Noam Ben-Haim

发明人： Shlomo Urbach ,  Tal Yadid ,  Yuval Netzer ,  Andrea Frome ,  Noam Ben-Haim

IPC分类号： G06K9/18

CPC分类号： G06K9/723 ,  G06F17/241 ,  G06F17/2705 ,  G06F17/30241 ,  G06K9/00664 ,  G06K2209/01

摘要： Establishments are identified in geo-tagged images. According to one aspect, text regions are located in a geo-tagged image and text strings in the text regions are recognized using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques. Text phrases are extracted from information associated with establishments known to be near the geographic location specified in the geo-tag of the image. The text strings recognized in the image are compared with the phrases for the establishments for approximate matches, and an establishment is selected as the establishment in the image based on the approximate matches. According to another aspect, text strings recognized in a collection of geo-tagged images are compared with phrases for establishments in the geographic area identified by the geo-tags to generate scores for image-establishment pairs. Establishments in each of the large collection of images as well as representative images showing each establishment are identified using the scores.

摘要翻译： 在地理标签图像中标识企业。 根据一个方面，文本区域位于地理标记的图像中，并且使用光学字符识别（OCR）技术识别文本区域中的文本串。 从与已知在图像的地理标签中指定的地理位置附近的企业相关联的信息中提取文本短语。 将图像中识别的文本字符串与用于近似匹配的场所的短语进行比较，并且基于近似匹配来选择企业作为图像中的建立。 根据另一方面，将在地理标签图像的集合中识别的文本字符串与由地理标签识别的地理区域中的企业的短语进行比较，以生成图像建立对的分数。 使用分数来确定每个大图像集合中的各个场所以及显示每个机构的代表性图像。

公开(公告)号：US09053115B1

公开(公告)日：2015-06-09

申请号：US13592850

申请日：2012-08-23

申请人： Charles J. Rosenberg ,  Jingbin Wang ,  Sarah Moussa ,  Erik Murphy-Chutorian ,  Andrea Frome ,  Yoram Singer ,  Radhika Malpani

发明人： Charles J. Rosenberg ,  Jingbin Wang ,  Sarah Moussa ,  Erik Murphy-Chutorian ,  Andrea Frome ,  Yoram Singer ,  Radhika Malpani

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/301 ,  G06F17/30247 ,  G06F17/30268

摘要： Methods, systems and apparatus for identifying result images for a query image. One or more labels that are associated with the query image are obtained. Candidate images matching the query labels are identified. Visual similarity scores are generated for the candidate images. Each visual similarity score represents the visual similarity of a respective candidate image to the query image. Relevance scores are generated for each of the candidate images based on the visual similarity scores. Each relevance score represents a measure of relevance of the respective candidate images to the query image. The candidate images are ranked based on the relevance scores, a highest ranking subset of the candidate images being identified as result images and referenced by image search results. The result images can be candidate images that satisfy a similarity condition relative to the query image and other result images.

摘要翻译： 用于识别查询图像的结果图像的方法，系统和装置。 获得与查询图像相关联的一个或多个标签。 识别符合查询标签的候选图像。 为候选图像生成视觉相似性分数。 每个视觉相似性分数表示相应候选图像与查询图像的视觉相似度。 基于视觉相似性得分，针对每个候选图像生成相关性分数。 每个相关性分数表示各个候选图像与查询图像的相关度的度量。 候选图像基于相关性分数进行排序，候选图像的最高排名子集被识别为结果图像并且由图像搜索结果引用。 结果图像可以是满足相对于查询图像和其他结果图像的相似性条件的候选图像。

公开(公告)号：US08509499B2

公开(公告)日：2013-08-13

申请号：US13302634

申请日：2011-11-22

申请人： Sergey Ioffe ,  Lance Williams ,  Dennis Strelow ,  Andrea Frome ,  Luc Vincent

发明人： Sergey Ioffe ,  Lance Williams ,  Dennis Strelow ,  Andrea Frome ,  Luc Vincent

IPC分类号： G06K9/36

CPC分类号： G06T11/001 ,  G06K9/00281 ,  G06T5/005

摘要： A method and system of identity masking to obscure identities corresponding to face regions in an image is disclosed. A face detector is applied to detect a set of possible face regions in the image. Then an identity masker is used to process the detected face regions by identity masking techniques in order to obscure identities corresponding to the regions. For example, a detected face region can be blurred as if it is in motion by a motion blur algorithm, such that the blurred region can not be recognized as the original identity. Or the detected face region can be replaced by a substitute facial image by a face replacement algorithm to obscure the corresponding identity.

公开(公告)号：US08429173B1

公开(公告)日：2013-04-23

申请号：US12763466

申请日：2010-04-20

申请人： Charles Rosenberg ,  Jingbin Wang ,  Sarah Moussa ,  Erik Murphy-Chutorian ,  Andrea Frome ,  Yoram Singer ,  Radhika Malpani

发明人： Charles Rosenberg ,  Jingbin Wang ,  Sarah Moussa ,  Erik Murphy-Chutorian ,  Andrea Frome ,  Yoram Singer ,  Radhika Malpani

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/301 ,  G06F17/30247 ,  G06F17/30268

摘要： Methods, systems and apparatus for identifying result images for a query image. One or more labels that are associated with the query image are obtained. Candidate images matching the query labels are identified. Visual similarity scores are generated for the candidate images. Each visual similarity score represents the visual similarity of a respective candidate image to the query image. Relevance scores are generated for each of the candidate images based on the visual similarity scores. Each relevance score represents a measure of relevance of the respective candidate images to the query image. The candidate images are ranked based on the relevance scores, a highest ranking subset of the candidate images being identified as result images and referenced by image search results. The result images can be candidate images that satisfy a similarity condition relative to the query image and other result images.

摘要翻译： 用于识别查询图像的结果图像的方法，系统和装置。 获得与查询图像相关联的一个或多个标签。 识别符合查询标签的候选图像。 为候选图像生成视觉相似性分数。 每个视觉相似性分数表示相应候选图像与查询图像的视觉相似度。 基于视觉相似性得分，针对每个候选图像生成相关性分数。 每个相关性分数表示各个候选图像与查询图像的相关度的度量。 候选图像基于相关性分数进行排序，候选图像的最高排名子集被识别为结果图像并且由图像搜索结果引用。 结果图像可以是满足相对于查询图像和其他结果图像的相似性条件的候选图像。

公开(公告)号：US20150154607A1

公开(公告)日：2015-06-04

申请号：US13034095

申请日：2011-02-24

申请人： Andrea Frome ,  Howard Wellington Trickey ,  Melanie Clements ,  Ethan G. Russell ,  Paul Eastlund ,  Diego Ariel Gertzenstein ,  Douglas Richard Grundman ,  Baris Yuksel

发明人： Andrea Frome ,  Howard Wellington Trickey ,  Melanie Clements ,  Ethan G. Russell ,  Paul Eastlund ,  Diego Ariel Gertzenstein ,  Douglas Richard Grundman ,  Baris Yuksel

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G06K9/62

CPC分类号： G06Q30/018

摘要： Systems and methods are provided for determining whether given business listings are spam or are closed businesses. In one example, a system receives a business listing from a user. The business listing contains a geolocation and the name of a business. The system also receives one or more street level images related to a geographic object that is at or near the same geolocation as the business listing. The system determines if the business listing is spam or is closed based on the received street level images by determining if the geographic object is the business or by analyzing whether the business associated with the listing is shown in any of the street level images.

摘要翻译： 提供系统和方法来确定给定的商业信息是垃圾邮件还是封闭的业务。 在一个示例中，系统从用户接收商业列表。 业务列表包含地理位置和业务名称。 该系统还接收与地理对象相关的一个或多个街道级图像，该地理对象处于或接近与商家列表相同的地理位置。 系统通过确定地理对象是业务还是通过分析与列表相关联的业务是否显示在任何街道级图像中，基于所接收的街道级图像来确定商家列表是垃圾邮件还是关闭。

公开(公告)号：US08098904B2

公开(公告)日：2012-01-17

申请号：US12078464

申请日：2008-03-31

申请人： Sergey Ioffe ,  Lance Williams ,  Dennis Strelow ,  Andrea Frome ,  Luc Vincent

发明人： Sergey Ioffe ,  Lance Williams ,  Dennis Strelow ,  Andrea Frome ,  Luc Vincent

IPC分类号： G06K9/36

CPC分类号： G06T11/001 ,  G06K9/00281 ,  G06T5/005

摘要： A method and system of identity masking to obscure identities corresponding to face regions in an image is disclosed. A face detector is applied to detect a set of possible face regions in the image. Then an identity masker is used to process the detected face regions by identity masking techniques in order to obscure identities corresponding to the regions. For example, a detected face region can be blurred as if it is in motion by a motion blur algorithm, such that the blurred region can not be recognized as the original identity. Or the detected face region can be replaced by a substitute facial image by a face replacement algorithm to obscure the corresponding identity.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种识别掩蔽以掩盖对应于图像中的面部区域的身份的方法和系统。 应用面部检测器来检测图像中的一组可能的面部区域。 然后，使用身份掩码来通过身份掩蔽技术来处理检测到的面部区域，以便掩盖对应于该区域的身份。 例如，检测到的脸部区域可以像通过运动模糊算法运动一样被模糊，使得模糊区域不能被识别为原始身份。 或者通过面部替换算法可以通过替代面部图像来替换检测到的面部区域以遮蔽对应的身份。

公开(公告)号：US08600102B1

公开(公告)日：2013-12-03

申请号：US13236032

申请日：2011-09-19

申请人： Andrea Frome

发明人： Andrea Frome

IPC分类号： G06K9/00

CPC分类号： G06K9/00268 ,  G06K9/00228 ,  G06K9/00288 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G09F9/30 ,  H04N5/2723

摘要： A system and method is provided wherein, in one aspect, a processor determines whether multiple street level images have captured a nearly-identical face. If so, the images are processed to determine whether the face appears to be part of an advertisement. Once it is determined that the face is displayed on an advertisement, the boundaries of the advertisement may be determined and the location of the advertisement is stored for future use, e.g., potentially replacing the advertisement in the image with a different advertisement.