US 11,727,681 B2
Media annotation with product source linking
Henry Scott-Green, Marina del Rey, CA (US); and Anjali Malik, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Appl. No. 16/627,991
Filed by GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 8, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/026381
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 31, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/209835, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0027624 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06F 16/957 (2019.01); G06F 40/134 (2020.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06V 20/20 (2022.01) [G06F 16/957 (2019.01); G06F 40/134 (2020.01); G06T 5/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
detecting, by a processing device, a set of objects depicted in an image;
selecting an object from the set of objects detected in the image that satisfies one or more criteria based on at least viewership data, wherein the viewership data indicates information about a plurality of viewers comprising two or more of: one or more current viewers of the image, one or more future viewers of the image, or one or more past viewers of the image;
associating the selected object in the image with a source indicator;
responsive to associating the selected object in the image with the source indicator, annotating, by the processing device, the image to indicate the object is associated with the source indicator;
receiving a user selection of the object in the image; and
identifying a source based on the source indicator and on contextual data associated with the user selection, wherein the source comprises information about the object.