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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jan Erik Solem, Bjärred, SE;
Yubin Kuang, Lund, SE;
Johan Gyllenspetz, West Hollywood, CA (US);
Peter Neubauer, Malmö, SE;
Pau Gargallo Piracés, Barcelona, ES;
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for navigating through a set of images depicting a scenery, said method comprising: receiving information relating to a subset of images within said set of images, said information comprising metadata of each image, said subset of images comprising images being acquired from a geographical position, which is within a bounding area surrounding the geographical position of a current image within the set of images; receiving weight information, said weight information controlling weights to be given to a plurality of different measures of similarities based on different types of metadata; and calculating a plurality of combined measures of similarity for pairs of images in the subset of images, said calculating being performed using said metadata and said weight information.