Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120155778 | Spatial Image Index and Associated Updating Functionality - An image matching system is described for finding reference images which match a query image. The image matching system performs this operation in expeditious fashion by restricting the matching to a bounding region; the bounding region, in turn, may be associated with a location at which the query image may have been captured. In addition, the image matching system provides various mechanisms that expedite adding new reference images to an image index, to thereby provide a re-enforced learning mechanism of the image matching system. | 06-21-2012 |
20120323931 | SPATIAL ATTRIBUTE RANKING VALUE INDEX - A request may be received that includes an indicator associated with a geographic location and scope. A database search may be initiated, based on the geographic location and scope. A list of one or more tags may be received, the tags associated with the geographic location, ordered based on relevance within the geographic scope, based on tag locale rankings associated with each of the tags included in the list of tags, the tag locale rankings based on comparisons of relative frequencies of occurrence of the tags, based on first bounded geographic areas, compared with second relative frequencies of occurrence of the tags based on second bounded geographic areas that are respectively larger than the first bounded geographic areas, the request geographic scope indicating one of a plurality of hierarchical geographic analysis levels associated with a plurality of geographic locations. | 12-20-2012 |
20130156274 | USING PHOTOGRAPH TO INITIATE AND PERFORM ACTION - Actions, such as adding new connection to a social graph, may be performed through picture taking. In one example, a user takes a picture of one or more people. The face in the picture may be sent to a social network for identification. The social network may use various resources to identify the face, including the social network's picture database and its social graph. When the person in the picture has been identified, the user may indicate an action (e.g., “adding as a friend” in a social network) to be performed with respect to the identified person. The action requested by the user may be then performed with respect to the identified person. | 06-20-2013 |
20140181093 | Search Results Through Interest Circles - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for responding to a search query with search results ranked according to interest circles of a plurality of computer users are presented. Interest circles are formed from a computer user's navigation data, including the computer user's navigation history. A search query is received from a requesting computer user. The search query is directed to a query topic or set of query topics. A set of search results responsive to the search query are obtained. A plurality of computer users, each of the plurality of computer users having an established interest circle corresponding to the query topic, is identified. The set of search results are then ordered according to the interest circles of the identified plurality of computer users. Thereafter, the higher ordered search results are returned to the requesting computer user in response to the search query. | 06-26-2014 |
20140280046 | SEARCHING USING SOCIAL FILTERS AS OPERATORS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for responding to a search query with search results where the search query includes a social source operation are presented. Upon receiving a search query directed to a query topic, and including a social source operation, the search engine identifies search results corresponding to the query topic, and further obtains social data necessary to satisfy the social source operation of the search query. The search results are modified in light of the social source operation according to the obtained social data. One or more search results pages are generated according to the modified search results and at least one of the search results pages is returned to the requesting computer user. | 09-18-2014 |
20150120094 | UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE DELIVERY SYSTEM - This disclosure describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) configured to autonomously deliver items of inventory to various destinations. The UAV may receive inventory information and a destination location and autonomously retrieve the inventory from a location within a materials handling facility, compute a route from the materials handling facility to a destination and travel to the destination to deliver the inventory. | 04-30-2015 |
20150379876 | OBJECT AVOIDANCE FOR AUTOMATED AERIAL VEHICLES - This disclosure describes an automated aerial vehicle that includes one or more object detection elements configured to detect the presence of objects and an avoidance determining element configured to cause the automated aerial vehicle to automatically determine and execute an avoidance maneuver to avoid the objects. For example, an object may be detected and an avoidance maneuver determined based on a position of the object and an object vector representative of a direction and a magnitude of velocity of the object. | 12-31-2015 |
20160039529 | PROPELLER SAFETY FOR AUTOMATED AERIAL VEHICLES - The disclosure describes an automated aerial vehicle (AAV) and system for automatically detecting a contact or an imminent contact between a propeller of the AAV and an object (e.g., human, pet, or other animal). When a contact or an imminent contact is detected, a safety profile may be executed to reduce or avoid any potential harm to the object and/or the AAV. For example, if a contact with a propeller of the AAV by an object is detected, the rotation of the propeller may be stopped to avoid harming the object. Likewise, an object detection component may be used to detect an object that is nearing a propeller, stop the rotation of the propeller, and/or navigate the AAV away from the detected object. | 02-11-2016 |