Scoring items

• US 8,374,400 B1
• Filed: 04/30/2012
• Issued: 02/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Rosenberg, Charles, Rowley, Henry A., Malpani, Radhika
• Primary Examiner(s): AZARIAN, SEYED H
• Application Number:
  US13/460,539
• Time in Patent Office: 288 Days
• Field of Search: 382/100, 382/112, 382135-140, 382155-161, 382/168, 382/176, 382/173, 382/181, 382/190, 382/194, 382/199, 382/209, 382/232, 382/254, 382/274, 382/276, 382/305, 382/310, 382/312, 382/165, 706/14, 709/224, 707/706
• US Class Current: 382/112
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/256 of results relating to different input data, e.g. multimodal recognition

Abstract

A system identifies an image and determines whether the image contains inappropriate content based on first data associated with the image, second data associated with a document that contains the image or refers to the image, and/or third data associated with a group of documents with which the image is associated.

Claims

1. A method performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising:

generating, by the one or more server devices, a score for an image that is associated with a web site, the generating the score for the image comprising;

generating a first score based on a distribution of color that is associated with the image,

generating a second score based on one or more other images associated with the web site, and

generating the score based on the first score and the second score;

associating, by the one or more server devices, the score with the image;

determining, by the one or more server devices, to provide the image for presentation to a user based on the associated score; and

providing the image for presentation to the user based on the determination.

2. The method of claim 1, where generating the score for the image further includes:

generating the score for the image based on text in a document that includes the image.

3. The method of claim 2, where generating the score further includes:

generating a text score for the document based on the text in the document, and

generating the score for the image based on the text score.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining to provide the image to the user when the associated score does not exceed a threshold.

5. The method of claim 1, where generating the score further includes:

representing the web site using one or more sets of statistics, and

generating the score based on the one or more set of statistics.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating a tag with the image based on the score.

7. The method of claim 1, where the image is associated with a first document of the web site, and where the one or more other images are associated with one or more second documents of the web site, where the first document is different from the one or more second documents.

8. A system comprising:

one or more processors to;

generate a score for an image that is associated with a web site, when generating the score, the one or more processors being further to;

generate a first score based on a distribution of color that is associated with the image,

generate a second score based on one or more other images associated with the web site, and

generate the score based on the first score and the second score;

associate the score with the image;

determine to provide the image for presentation to a user based on the associated score; and

provide the image for presentation to the user based on the determination.

9. The system of claim 8, where, when generating the score for the image, the one or more processors are further to:

generate the score for the image based on text in a document that includes the image.

10. The system of claim 9, where, when generating the score, the one or more processors are further to:

generate a text score for the document based on the text in the document, and

generate the score for the image based on the text score.

11. The system of claim 8, where the one or more processors are further to:

determine to provide the image to the user when the associated score does not exceed a threshold.

12. The system of claim 8, where, when generating the score, the one or more processors are further to:

represent the web site using one or more sets of statistics, and

generate the score based on the one or more set of statistics.

13. The system of claim 8, where the one or more processors are further to:

associate a tag with the image based on the score.

14. The system of claim 8, where the image is associated with a first document of the web site, and where the one or more other images are associated with one or more second documents of the web site, where the first document is different from the one or more second documents.

15. A computer-readable memory device for storing instructions executable by one or more processors, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

generate a score for an image that is associated with a web site, the instructions that cause the one or more processors to generate the score including;

one or more instructions that cause the one or more processors to;

generate a first score based on a distribution of color that is associated with the image,

generate a second score based on one or more other images associated with the web site, and

generate the score based on the first score and the second score;

associate the score with the image;

determine to provide the image for presentation to a user based on the associated score; and

provide the image for presentation to the user based on the determination.

16. The computer-readable memory device of claim 15, where the one or more instructions to generate the score for the image include:

one or more instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate the score for the image based on text in a document that includes the image.

17. The computer-readable memory device of claim 16, where the one or more instructions to generate the score for the image include:

one or more instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

generate a text score for the document based on the text in the document, and

generate the score for the image based on the text score.

18. The computer-readable memory device of claim 15, where the one or more instructions further comprise:

one or more instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to determine to provide the image to the user when the associated score does not exceed a threshold.

19. The computer-readable memory device of claim 15, where the one or more instructions to generate the score for the image include:

one or more instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

represent the web site using one or more sets of statistics, and

generate the score based on the one or more set of statistics.

20. The computer-readable memory device of claim 15, where the image is associated with a first document of the web site, and where the one or more other images are associated with one or more second documents of the web site, where the first document is different from the one or more second documents.