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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2023
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Binwei Yang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Omer Ovenc, San Jose, CA (US);
Behzad Ahmadi, San Jose, CA (US);
Cun Mu, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Zheng Yan, Short Hills, NJ (US);
Guang Yang, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Jun Zhao, Jersey City, NJ (US);
WALMART APOLLO, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
A method including pre-screening second images from a database for a search result based on a first image and also based on respective substring distances between first binary substrings for the first image and respective second binary substrings for each of the second images. The method further can include after the pre-screening, determining a respective image distance for each third image of third images of the search result, wherein the respective image distance is between the first image and the each third image of the third images of the search result, and after determining the respective image distance for each third image of the third images of the search result, when the respective image distance for a particular one of the third images is greater than a predetermined image distance threshold, removing the particular one of the third images from the search result before the search result is displayed on a user device requesting the search result. Other embodiments are disclosed.