Inventors:
Arcot J. Preetham - San Jose CA, US
Myron Flickner - San Jose CA, US
Xiaorui Gan - Santa Clara CA, US
Gabriel Wolosin - San Mateo CA, US
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
US Classification:
707769, 707E17019, 707E17014
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing image endorsements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search query from a user device of a user that belongs to a social affinity group; receiving image search results responsive to the search query, each image search result referencing a corresponding image resource and including a representative image of the image resource; identifying representative images of the image search results that each have an endorsement association with one or more of the users identified by the social affinity group; generating annotation data describing the endorsement association with at least one of the users identified by the social affinity group; and providing the annotation data to a user device for presentation with the representative image.
