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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2016
Oath Inc., New York, NY (US);
Sachin Sudhakar Farfade, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vijay Mahadevan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ayman Kaheel, Denver, CO (US);
Ayyappan Arasu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Venkat Kumar Reddy Barakam, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jan Kiran Mahadeokar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
OATH INC., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are systems and methods for automatic selection of canonical digital images from a large corpus of digital images, such as the corpus of digital images available on the web, for an entity, such as and without limitation a person, a point of interest, object, etc. The automated, unsupervised approach for selecting a diverse set of high quality, canonical digital images, is well suited for processing a large corpus of digital images. A set of canonical digital images identified for an entity can be retrieved in response to a digital image request for digital images depicting the entity.