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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2021
Pinterest, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Kelei Xu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Naveen Gavini, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin Yushi Jing, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew Huan Zhai, San Mateo, CA (US);
Dmitry Olegovich Kislyuk, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam Jay Barton, Oakland, CA (US);
Marcelo Reis E Silva De Queiroz, Winter Garden, FL (US);
Pinterest, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Described is a system and method for enabling dynamic selection of a search input. For example, rather than having a static search input box, the search input may be dynamically positioned such that it encompasses a portion of displayed information. For example, a user may touch a touch-based display using two fingers to invoke the dynamic search input and then determine a size and a position of the dynamic search input by moving their fingers on the display. An image segment that includes a representation of the encompassed portion of the displayed information is generated and processed to determine an object represented in the portion of the displayed information. Additional images with visually similar representations of objects are then determined and presented to the user.