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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2016
A9.com, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Paulo Mendonca, Seattle, WA (US);
Zhongwei Cheng, Bothell, WA (US);
A9.com, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Image data may be downloaded or otherwise obtained. An application executing on the computing device (or at least in communication with the computing device) can analyze the image data to recognize objects represented in the image data as well as determine locations or regions of the image that include the representations. Candidate regions of interest (e.g., bounding boxes) that include at least one detected object can be generated. A single region—a representative region—can be determined from the candidate regions based on user and/or application-defined criterion. The criteria may help ensure that the representative region includes statistical properties that at least satisfy threshold property levels, such as being a consistent estimator of the candidate regions. Notions of 'average' or 'median' regions can be applied to generate the representative region. The representative region can be associated with a confidence score, which can reflect inconsistency in the candidate regions, and therefore can be associated with a property of the candidate regions and not of the representative region alone.