US 2014/0372951 A1 · SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS

Abstract

An image-based recommendation system provides a first set of selectable images to a user and receives user selections from the first set of images. If a user selects a single image from the first set of images, the product page associated with the selected image is transmitted to the user. If the user makes multiple selections from the first set of images, then the images associated with the user selections are analyzed and a second set of similar images is generated for transmission to the user. The process of receiving and analyzing user-selected images, generating image sets and transmission of generated images sets continues until the user selects a single image. The precision of identification of similar images can be improved by providing the user selections as training data to the image-based recommendation system.

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Dependent claims

1) A method comprising:

providing, by a processor, a plurality of images for selection to a user;
receiving, by the processor, user selections from the plurality of images;
determining, by the processor, a number of user selections from the plurality of images, wherein, if the number of user selections from the plurality of images is equal to or greater than two:
extracting, by the processor, features of the user selected images;
retrieving, by the processor, other images from a data store;
clustering, by the processor, the other images and the user-selected images based on the extracted features;
identifying, by the processor, at least one cluster comprising at least one of the user-selected images;
transmitting, by the processor, images from the at least one cluster as similar images for selection to the user;
and
providing, by the processor, details of a product associated with a user-selected image when the number of user selections is equal to one.

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11) A computing system comprising:

at least one processor;
a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising:
image providing logic, executed by the processor, for providing a plurality of images for selection to a user;
selection receiving logic, executed by the processor, for receiving user selections from the plurality of images;
number determining logic, executed by the processor, for determining a number of user selections from the plurality of images:
image retrieving logic, executed by the processor, for retrieving other images from a data store if the number of user selections is equal to or greater than two;
feature extracting logic, executed by the processor, for extracting features of the user selected images, if the number of user selections is equal to or greater than two;
clustering logic, executed by the processor, for clustering the other images and the user-selected images based on the extracted features;
identifying,logic, executed by the processor, for identifying at least one cluster comprising at least one of the user-selected images;
transmitting logic, executed by the processor, for transmitting images from the at least one cluster as similar images for selection to the user;
and
providing logic, executed by the processor, for providing details of a product associated with a user-selected image when the number of user selections is equal to one.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Systems and methods for image-based recommendations

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Systems and methods for image-based recommendations

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