Google Inc.

Ykk Corporation

Saito, Junpei

Ken Kawamoto

Alastair Tse

Ricardo Escutia

Yongzhong Lee

Hsun Tang

Charles Su

Kevin Kwok

Winston Hsu

Samuel G Beckman

Christopher Davie

Paul Henry Sullivan

Rita Chow

Kazusa Higashide

Yasumichi Yamamoto

A level of busyness of a public place may be represented using content specific to the public place. Images, video, audio, or other content captured at the public place is correlated with busyness information for the public place at the time of capture. Representative content is selected and stored based on a number of factors such as to minimize resources in storing and transmitting the content. The selected representative content may be provided in response to a user request for information related to the public place, such that the user receives an accurate portrayal of how the public place would look, sound, and/or feel at a given time.

System and method for representing busyness using content specific to a place

The present disclosure provides systems and methods that provides users with information pertaining to the audio properties at one or more points of interest. A database associated the audio properties with the points of interest is built using audio input received from devices at the points of interest. The device may determine that audio properties associated with the received audio input. The audio properties may determine a type of background noise and/or a volume of the background noise. If the type of background noise is music, the audio properties may further include a music genre, a title of a song, whether the music is recorded or there is a live band, etc. The audio properties associated with the point of interest may be updated in a database real time.

Place search by audio signals

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Ken Kawamoto