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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul Alexander Dow, Redwood City, CA (US);
Brett Alden Lavalla, San Carlos, CA (US);
Jeffrey C. Wieland, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shaomei Wu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yuhang Zhao, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Lindsay Reynolds, San Carlos, CA (US);
Matt King, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes capturing one or more images of a physical environment surrounding the first user; determining that one or more of the images comprises a face; generating a facial image by cropping a region of the image comprising the face; sending instructions to perform facial recognition on the facial image; receiving a name associated with a second user of the online social network, wherein the face is associated with the second user, wherein the first user is represented by a first node on a social graph maintained by the social-networking system and the second user is represented by a second node on the social graph, and the first node and the second node are connected by at least one edge; and providing an audible indication of the name associated with the second user.