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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2020
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Julia X. Gong, Cary, NC (US);
Jyotkumar Patel, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yale Song, Redmond, WA (US);
Xuetao Yin, Bellevue, WA (US);
Xiujia Guo, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rajiv S. Binwade, Bellevue, WA (US);
Houdong Hu, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for determining a food item from a photograph and a corresponding restaurant serving the food item. An image is received from a user, the image being associated with a consumable item. One or more ingredients of the consumable item in the image is identified along with a location of the user and using a neural network, determining one or more similar images from a database. A restaurant associated with each of the one or more similar images is determined along with a similarity score indicating a similarity between the restaurant and the identified content of the image. The one or more restaurants and/or associated similar food items are ranked based on the similarity score and a list of ranked restaurants is provided to the user.