US 12,147,486 B2
System and method for representing busyness using content specific to a place
Ken Kawamoto, Tokyo (JP); Kevin Kwok, Tokyo (JP); Samuel G. Beckman, New York, NY (US); Winston Hsu, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Christopher Davie, New York, NY (US); Paul Henry Sullivan, New York, NY (US); and Rita Chow, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/772,805
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 30, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/065654
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 28, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/129160, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 6, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2023/0401269 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/9537 (2019.01) [G06F 16/24578 (2019.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing content specific to a particular public place, the method comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors, a request for busyness level information regarding the particular public place at a given time;
determining, by the one or more processors, an expected busyness level for the particular public place at the given time;
accessing a database storing content specific to the particular public place, the content including images received from various sources and depicting various busyness levels captured at the particular public place at times different than the given time;
evaluating, with one or more processors executing a machine learning model, features of the content, the evaluating comprising comparing the busyness levels depicted in the images with the expected busyness level at the particular public place at the given time, wherein the evaluating comprises comparing features of first candidate content and features of second candidate content, and scoring each of the first candidate content and the second candidate content based on the features in each;
selecting, with the one or more processors based on the evaluating, one or more images from the content, the selected one or more images representing the busyness level that is responsive to the request; and
providing for output, in response to the request, the selected one or more images.