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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 20, 2012
Applicant:

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, KY;

Inventors:

Yu Deng, Beijing, CN;

Ke Chen, Hangzhou, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/54 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30168 (2013.01); G06F 17/3025 (2013.01);
Abstract

Image analysis includes: determining, using one or more processors, an image quality score associated with an image, including: determining a foreground and a background in the image; calculating a set of one or more characteristic parameters of the image based on the determined foreground and background; calculating the image quality score based at least in part on the set of characteristic parameters, wherein calculating the image quality score comprises using an image quality computation model that has been pre-trained; and in response to a search query, generating a set of search results that includes a set the images, wherein inclusion of the images or ranking of the search results is based at least in part on image quality scores associated with the set of images.


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