Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, and Digital Ticketing Systems
Granted: February 8, 2024
Application Number:
20240046643
Augmented reality, computer vision, and digital ticketing system techniques are described that employ a location determination system. In one example, the location determination system is configured to receiving at least one digital image as part of a live camera feed, identify an object included in the at least one digital image using object recognition, determine a location of the object in relation to a digital map of a physical environment, generate augmented reality digital content…
Physical Object Boundary Detection Techniques and Systems
Granted: February 8, 2024
Application Number:
20240046481
Physical object boundary detection techniques and systems are described. In one example, an augmented reality module generates three dimensional point cloud data. This data describes depths at respective points within a physical environment that includes the physical object. A physical object boundary detection module is then employed to filter the point cloud data by removing points that correspond to a ground plane. The module then performs a nearest neighbor search to locate a subset…
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTION OF SPAM PUBLICATION
Granted: February 8, 2024
Application Number:
20240046306
In various example embodiments, a system and method for determining a spam publication using a spam detection system are presented. The spam detection system receives, from a device, an image of an item and an item attribute for the item. Additionally, the spam detection system extracts an image attribute based on the received image, and compares the item attribute and the image attribute. Moreover, the spam detection system calculates a confidence score based on the comparison.…
INTELLIGENT ONLINE PERSONAL ASSISTANT WITH MULTI-TURN DIALOG BASED ON VISUAL SEARCH
Granted: February 1, 2024
Application Number:
20240037626
Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a relevant candidate product in an electronic marketplace. Embodiments perform a visual similarity comparison between candidate product image visual content and input query image visual content, process formal and informal natural language user inputs, and coordinate aggregated past user interactions with the marketplace stored in a knowledge graph. Visually similar items and their corresponding product categories, aspects,…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZING ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE APPLICATIONS
Granted: February 1, 2024
Application Number:
20240037616
An application configured to be dynamically and/or incrementally updated to tailor capabilities of the application to areas of interest of a user is disclosed. The application receives one or more task-specific modules for enhancing a task-specific capability of the application. The one or more task-specific modules are identified from among a plurality of task-specific modules, based on user data indicative of interaction of the user with an electronic marketplace. The one or more…
INTELLIGENT ONLINE PERSONAL ASSISTANT WITH MULTI-TURN DIALOG BASED ON VISUAL SEARCH
Granted: February 1, 2024
Application Number:
20240037626
Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a relevant candidate product in an electronic marketplace. Embodiments perform a visual similarity comparison between candidate product image visual content and input query image visual content, process formal and informal natural language user inputs, and coordinate aggregated past user interactions with the marketplace stored in a knowledge graph. Visually similar items and their corresponding product categories, aspects,…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZING ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE APPLICATIONS
Granted: February 1, 2024
Application Number:
20240037616
An application configured to be dynamically and/or incrementally updated to tailor capabilities of the application to areas of interest of a user is disclosed. The application receives one or more task-specific modules for enhancing a task-specific capability of the application. The one or more task-specific modules are identified from among a plurality of task-specific modules, based on user data indicative of interaction of the user with an electronic marketplace. The one or more…
SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A QUALITY SCORE BASED RECOMMENDATION
Granted: January 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240028658
One or more of the systems, apparatuses, or methods discussed herein can include a quality score for a plurality of item listings or collections of item listings. Data sparseness can be avoided, as the quality score is based on inherent properties of the listing. An item listing can be recommended to a user based on the quality score. In one or more embodiments, a method can include determining a plurality of quality scores including a quality score for each of a plurality of item…
SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A QUALITY SCORE BASED RECOMMENDATION
Granted: January 25, 2024
Application Number:
20240028658
One or more of the systems, apparatuses, or methods discussed herein can include a quality score for a plurality of item listings or collections of item listings. Data sparseness can be avoided, as the quality score is based on inherent properties of the listing. An item listing can be recommended to a user based on the quality score. In one or more embodiments, a method can include determining a plurality of quality scores including a quality score for each of a plurality of item…
IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION BASED VISUAL SEARCH
Granted: January 4, 2024
Application Number:
20240004920
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for adding new features to a network service. A method includes receiving an image depicting an object of interest. A category set is determined for the object of interest and an image signature is generated for the image. Using the category set and the image signature, the method identifies a set of publications within a publication database and assigns a rank to each publication. The method causes presentation of the ranked list of…
IMAGE CLEANUP ON A MOBILE DEVICE
Granted: December 28, 2023
Application Number:
20230419457
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are provided for image cleanup. In some embodiments, there is provide a method which may include subsampling a first image to a first level image of a multiscale transform; performing, based on a machine learning model, an identification of a foreground portion of the first level image and a background portion of the first level image; generating, based on the identification of the foreground portion and…
Adaptive Timing Prediction For Updating Information
Granted: December 21, 2023
Application Number:
20230410189
Technologies are disclosed herein for distributing information. The disclosed technologies determine an application element configured to receive information that is updated at a variable rate, the information pertaining to an object. Feature data is received that is associated with the object and data associated with use of the application element. The feature data includes a time horizon for the object and supplemental information associated with the object. Based on the feature data…
VISUAL ASPECT LOCALIZATION PRESENTATION
Granted: December 21, 2023
Application Number:
20230409930
Various embodiments use a neural network to analyze images for aspects that characterize the images, to present locations of those aspects on the images, and, additionally, to permit a user to interact with those locations on the images. For example, a user may interact with a visual cue over one of those locations to modify, refine, or filter the results of a visual search, performed on a publication corpus, that uses an input image (e.g., one captured using a mobile device) as a search…
INTELLIGENT ONLINE PERSONAL ASSISTANT WITH OFFLINE VISUAL SEARCH DATABASE
Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number:
20230401839
Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a candidate product in an electronic marketplace based on a visual comparison between candidate product image visual content and input query image visual content. Embodiments generate and store descriptive image signatures from candidate product images or selected portions of such images. A subsequently calculated visual similarity measure serves as a visual search result score for the candidate product in comparison to an…
Adaptive Data Platforms
Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number:
20230401276
An experimentation platform controls testing of features by an application server. Based on a user identifier, the experimentation platform determines which feature should be provided, and the application server provides the corresponding version of a user interface. If the user behavior data shows that using a tested feature results in an improvement, the tested feature will be adopted. To determine whether or not an improvement is observed, a statistically significant amount of data is…
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING VISUALLY SIMILAR ITEMS
Granted: December 7, 2023
Application Number:
20230394550
A computer-implemented method includes determining a set of target listings, retrieving a seed image associated with the seed listing, the seed listing is categorized within a first item category, and generating a seed item feature vector for the seed image using a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained with images of items. The method also includes identifying a plurality of feature vectors associated with the first item category, comparing the seed item feature vector to the…
Asynchronous Predictive Caching Of Content Listed In Search Results
Granted: December 7, 2023
Application Number:
20230394042
Technologies described reduce the amount of time between requesting content and receiving the requested content. In some embodiments, a client provides a search query. A search result page is generated and, prior to returning the search result page to the client, some or all of the search results are asynchronously pre-fetched and cached. The search query can include custom parameters that are also included in the pre-fetch requests. Web addresses in the search results page can be…
Guided Photography and Video On A Mobile Device
Granted: November 30, 2023
Application Number:
20230385919
In an example embodiment, an item listing process is run in an item listing application. Upon reaching a specified point in the item listing process, a camera application on the user device is triggered (or the camera directly accessed by the item listing application) to enable a user to capture images using the camera, wherein the triggering includes providing an overlay informing the user as to an angle at which to capture images from the camera.
Fingerprinting Physical Items to Mint NFT's
Granted: November 23, 2023
Application Number:
20230376973
Fingerprinting physical items to mint NFTs is described. One or more features of a physical item are captured using a fingerprint capture system of a client device, and a fingerprint of the physical item is generated using the captured features of the physical item. The fingerprint of the physical item is provided to an authentication service to verify that the physical item corresponds to an authentic physical item by matching the fingerprint of the physical item to distinguishing…
Auctions in Extended Reality Environments
Granted: November 16, 2023
Application Number:
20230368282
Extended reality auction techniques are described that support conducting live auctions in an extended reality environment, such as augmented or virtual reality environments. Image data, for instance, is received by a computing device from a first computing device depicting an item for auction. An extended reality auction system initiates an auction for the item based on identifying that at least part of the item is in the image data. The image data is provided to a second computing…
