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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
May. 21, 2015
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jay Yagnik, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00288 (2013.01); G06F 17/30247 (2013.01); G06F 17/30256 (2013.01); G06K 9/6256 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes identifying a named entity, retrieving images associated with the named entity, and using a face detection algorithm to perform face detection on the retrieved images to detect faces in the retrieved images. At least one representative face image from the retrieved images is identified, and the representative face image is used to identify one or more additional images representing the at least one named entity.