US 11,727,054 B2
Method and apparatus for image recognition services
Roopnath Grandhi, Santa Clara, CA (US); Raghav Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Neelakantan Sundaresan, Mountain View, CA (US); Denis Golovnya, Allston, MA (US); and Jeffrey Olson, Medford, MA (US)
Assigned to eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on May 8, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/406,787.
Application 16/406,787 is a continuation of application No. 12/398,957, filed on Mar. 5, 2009, granted, now 10,936,650.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/033,940, filed on Mar. 5, 2008.
Prior Publication US 2019/0266614 A1, Aug. 29, 2019
Int. Cl. G06F 16/432 (2019.01); G06F 16/583 (2019.01); G06Q 30/06 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 16/5838 (2019.01) [G06F 16/434 (2019.01); G06F 16/583 (2019.01); G06Q 30/06 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, from a camera-enabled device, an image of a product, the image being taken by the camera-enabled device;
comparing, using one or more hardware processors, the received image to a plurality of stored images of a plurality of additional products;
identifying one or more similar characteristics, using the one or more hardware processors, between the received image and one or more stored images of the plurality of stored images of one or more additional products included in one or more categories of products based on the comparing; and
in response to the receiving of the image and the identifying of the one or more similar characteristics, causing enhancement of a user interface associated with the camera-enabled device, the causing of the enhancement including:
determining the one or more categories that include the one or more additional products,
generating one or more selectable identifiers of the one or more categories of products based on the image of the product and the one or more similar characteristics, each selectable identifier for selection of a particular category of products via the user interface,
generating one or more input features associated with each one or more selectable identifiers of the one or more categories of products, each input feature for receiving data associated with the product depicted in the received image,
presenting, in the user interface, the one or more selectable identifiers of the one or more categories of products and the one or more input features associated with each one or more selectable identifiers of the one or more categories of products,
presenting the one or more stored images of the one or more additional products together with the one or more selectable identifiers of the one or more categories of products, the presenting of the one or more stored images including displaying descriptions of the one or more additional products corresponding to the one or more stored images, and
receiving a request to associate the received image of the product with the one or more categories of products based on the presenting of the one or more stored images of the one or more additional products.