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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2015
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gregor Hochmuth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tim Van Damme, San Francisco, CA (US);
Philip McAllister, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin Systrom, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Displaying media items on a map includes: determining, among a plurality of media items, a set of media items that belongs to a region on a map, including: selecting, among the plurality of media items, a representative media item of the set of media items; defining the region on the map, a size of the region being dependent at least in part on a size of a reduced resolution image associated with the representative media item; and determining one or more other media items whose corresponding one or more pixel locations on a display are within the region, and including the one or more other media items in the set of media items; and displaying the reduced resolution image of the representative media item in the region on the map to represent the set of media items.