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Aesthetic search engine

US10726086B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Houzz, Inc. · US

Inventors

Chen Longbin · Palo Alto, US
Le Kang · Sunnyvale, US
Lei Yao · Beijing, CN
Zhenyu Mao · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 15, 2016
Grant date	Jul 28, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 6, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06V20/46
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An improved approach for returning aesthetically relevant search results is disclosed. A training set of images (e.g., designer-created images) is used to train a detection engine that detects items in the images as features. A classification engine is configured to analyze the features and generate classification indices for the features. A user can select an item, and the classification index for the feature corresponding to the item is retrieved. The classification index is used to identify result images, which can be returned ranked according user action data and other parameters, such as style.

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