US 2022/0101403 A1Published application

Computer Vision and Image Characteristic Search

AssigneeeBay Inc.

InventorsRobinson Piramuthu, Timothy Samuel Keefer, Kenneth Clark Crookston, Ashmeet Singh Rekhi, Niaz Ahamed Khaja Nazimudeen, Padmapriya Gudipati, Shane Lin, John F. Weigel, Fujun Zhong, Suchitra Ramesh, Mohammadhadi Kiapour, Shuai Zheng, Alberto Ordonez Pereira, Ravindra Surya Lanka, Md Atiq ul Islam, Nicholas Anthony Whyte, Giridharan Iyengar, Bryan Allen Plummer

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Abstract

Computer vision and image characteristic search is described. The described system leverages visual search techniques by determining visual characteristics of objects depicted in images and comparing the determined characteristics to visual characteristics of other images, e.g., to identify similar visual characteristics in the other images. In some aspects, the described system performs searches that leverage a digital image as part of a search query to locate digital content of interest. In some aspects, the described system surfaces multiple user interface instrumentalities that include images of patterns, textures, or materials and that are selectable to initiate a visual search of digital content having a similar pattern, texture, or material. The described aspects also include pattern-based authentication in which the system determines authenticity of an item in an image based on a similarity of its visual characteristics to visual characteristics of known authentic items.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method implemented by at least one computing device, the method comprising:

displaying, by the at least one computing device and via a user interface, a prompt having authentication instructions for providing digital visual content depicting one or more visual characteristics of an item being listed on a listing service, the authentication instructions instructing a user to provide the digital visual content of a specified portion of the item being listed depicting movement of the item being listed;
receiving, by the at least one computing device, the digital visual content that depicts the one or more visual characteristics of the item being listed;
generating, by the at least one computing device, non-textual data indicative of the one or more visual characteristics of the item from the digital visual content;
comparing, by the at least one computing device, the non-textual data to additional non-textual data indicative of visual characteristics of known authentic items;
determining, by the at least one computing device, whether the item being listed is authentic based on the comparing;
and
responsive to a determination that the item being listed is authentic, surfacing, by the at least one computing device, an indication that a listing of the item on the listing service is allowed to include an authentic designation;
or
responsive to a determination that the item being listed is not authentic, surfacing, by the at least one computing device, an indication that the listing of the item on the listing service is not allowed to include the authentic designation.

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Facts

Application: 17/550,350Filed 14 Dec 2021
Priority: 29 Dec 2017
Published: 31 Mar 2022
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Classification22 codes

G06Q 30/0627
By formulating product or service queries, e.g. using keywords or predefined options: by specifying product or service characteristics, e.g.…
G06F 3/017
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a…
G06F 16/3326
Reformulation based on results of preceding query: using relevance feedback from the user, e.g. relevance feedback on documents, documents sets,…
G06F 16/532
Querying: query formulation, e.g. graphical querying

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Application62/612,275Us provisional application · filed 29 Dec 2017
Application16/235,140Division · filed 28 Dec 2018
Application16/388,473Continuation · filed 18 Apr 2019
Application17/550,350Continuation
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