US Patent Application 18344509. Mapping Images to Search Queries simplified abstract

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Mapping Images to Search Queries

Organization Name

Google LLC


Inventor(s)

Matthew Sharifi of Kilchberg (CH)

Abhanshu Sharma of Zürich (CH)

David Petrou of Brooklyn NY (US)

Mapping Images to Search Queries - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18344509 titled 'Mapping Images to Search Queries

Simplified Explanation

The patent application describes methods, systems, and apparatus for improving image search queries.

  • The invention involves receiving a query image and associated entities.
  • It identifies candidate search queries that are pre-associated with the entities.
  • A relevance score is generated for each candidate search query.
  • The invention selects a representative search query for the query image based on the relevance scores.
  • The representative search query is provided as output in response to the query image.


Original Abstract Submitted

Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a query image, receiving one or more entities that are associated with the query image, identifying, for one or more of the entities, one or more candidate search queries that are pre-associated with the one or more entities, generating a respective relevance score for each of the candidate search queries, selecting, as a representative search query for the query image, a particular candidate search query based at least on the generated respective relevance scores and providing the representative search query for output in response to receiving the query image.