Tracy A King

US Patent:

20180181569, Jun 28, 2018

Filed:

Dec 22, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/389251

Inventors:

- Palo Alto CA, US
Sean Michael Bell - North Bend WA, US
Erick Cantu-Paz - San Jose CA, US
Apurva Charudatta Garware - Sunnyvale CA, US
Francois Huet - Santa Cruz CA, US
Tracy Holloway King - Mountain View CA, US
Keiichiro Suzuki - Redmond WA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

Abstract:

Embodiments described herein provide images representing a set of search results based on diversity between results of the search query. Images associated with a set of visually diverse items can be provided to provide a sample of items matching the search query across multiple types of categories. For example, search results can be grouped into types of categories and images from each of the types of categories can be grouped into subsets of visually related images (across one or more different visual attributes). A set of diverse representative images can be selected by taking at least one image from each of the groups of visually related images. The set of representative and diverse images can be displayed to provide an interesting, visually diverse, and aesthetically pleasing set of images to a user.