QUANTIFYING SOCIAL AFFINITY FROM A PLURALITY OF IMAGES

Patent №

US 8,774,533

Granted

2014-07-08

Filed 2010

Owner

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.

Lab

AI components

3

ml · vision · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12902818

A method of quantifying social affinity from multiple images includes identifying each image showing both a first person and a second person and determining a weighted affinity value between the first person and the second person. The weighted affinity value is determined based on a total number of persons appearing in each identified image, a physical distance between the first person and the second person represented in each identified image, and a total number of identified images.

AI classification

Vision1.00
AI hardware0.64
Machine learning0.59
Knowledge representation0.26
Natural language0.11
Evolutionary computation0.05
Planning0.02
Speech0.00

Ownership

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.

assignment · 253690909

Assignors

WU, PENG, TRETTER, DANIEL R.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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