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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:
Jul. 28, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2012
Applicants:

Evan D. Rapoport, Los Altos, CA (US);

Kei Kawai, Mountain View, CA (US);

Luc Vincent, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Chase Hensel, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Evan D. Rapoport, Los Altos, CA (US);

Kei Kawai, Mountain View, CA (US);

Luc Vincent, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Chase Hensel, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06T 17/05 (2011.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); G06T 17/05 (2013.01); G06T 19/003 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the invention include a system, method and computer-readable medium for viewing images in a three-dimensional environment. A user is identified. A social graph of the identified user and a plurality of other users is accessed. Based on the social graph, a plurality of images associated with one or more of the other users in the social graph are determined. The plurality of images and data are provided to a client device, wherein the data enables the display of the images in the 3D environment, at the client device.


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