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Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013

Filed:

Jul. 22, 2009
Applicants:

Thomas Leung, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Charles Rosenberg, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thomas Leung, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Charles Rosenberg, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06E 1/00 (2006.01); G06E 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/18 (2006.01); G06G 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image quality subsystem computes quality scores for images that represent a measure of visual quality of the images. Initial quality scores and query specific quality scores can be computed for the images based on image feature values for the images and a transformation factor that represents a measure of importance of image quality for computing relevance scores for images. The initial quality scores are query independent quality scores that are computed for the images and can be used as a factor for computing relevance scores for the image relative to any query. Query specific quality scores are computed for images that are identified as relevant for a particular query based on the initial quality scores and a query specific transformation factor for the particular query. Adjusted relevance scores for the images can be computed based on the initial quality scores or the query specific quality scores.


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