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• US 8,611,651 B1
• Filed: 01/24/2013
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Rowley, Henry A., Rosenberg, Charles, Malpani, Radhika
• Primary Examiner(s): AZARIAN, SEYED H
• Application Number:
  US13/748,995
• Time in Patent Office: 327 Days
• Field of Search: 382/100, 382/103, 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, 382/312, 382/165, 382/310, 707/706, 706/14, 709/224
• US Class Current: 382/165
• 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 first score for a document that includes an image,

the document being associated with a web site, and

the first score being based on text associated with the document;

generating, by the one or more server devices, a second score for the image,

the second score being based on image data that is associated with the image;

generating, by the one or more server devices, a third score based on the first score and the second score;

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

providing, by the one or more server devices, the image for presentation to the user based on the third score.

2. The method of claim 1, where the image data is based on color in the image.

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

generating an image score based on image data associated with one or more other images associated with the web site; and

generating the third score based on the image score.

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

representing the web site based on one or more statistics, and

generating the third score based on the one or more statistics.

5. The method of claim 1, where providing the image includes providing the image when the third score does not exceed a threshold.

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

generating a text score based on one or more other documents associated with the web site; and

generating the third score based on the text score.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating a tag with the image based on the third score, and

where providing the image for presentation includes;

providing the image when the tag is not associated with the image.

8. A system comprising:

one or more processors to;

generate a first score for a document that includes an image,

the document being associated with a web site, and

the first score being based on text associated with the document;

generate a second score for the image,

the second score being based on image data that is associated with the image;

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

provide the image for presentation to the user based on the third score.

9. The system of claim 8, where the image data is based on color in the image.

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

generate an image score based on image data associated with one or more other images associated with the web site; and

generate the third score based on the image score.

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

represent the web site based on one or more statistics, and

generate the third score based on the one or more statistics.

12. The system of claim 8, where, when providing the image, the one or more processors are further to provide the image when the third score does not exceed a threshold.

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

generate a text score based on one or more other documents associated with the web site; and

generate the third score based on the text score.

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

associate a tag with the image based on the third score, and

where, when providing the image for presentation, the one or more processors are further to;

provide the image when the tag is not associated with the image.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

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

generate a first score for a document that includes an image,

the document being associated with a web site, and

the first score being based on text associated with the document;

generate a second score for the image,

the second score being based on image data that is associated with the image;

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

provide the image for presentation to the user based on the third score.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, where the image data is based on color in the image.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, where the one or more instructions that cause the one or more processors to generate the third score include:

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

generate an image score based on image data associated with one or more other images associated with the web site; and

generate the third score based on the image score.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, where the one or more instructions that cause the one or more processors to generate the third score include:

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

represent the web site based on one or more statistics, and

generate the third score based on the one or more statistics.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, where the one or more instructions that cause the one or more processors to provide the image include one or more instructions that cause the one or more processors to provide the image when the third score does not exceed a threshold.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, where the one or more instructions that cause the one or more processors to generate the third score include:

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

generate a text score based on one or more other documents associated with the web site; and

generate the third score based on the text score.