US Patent Issued to eBay on July 28 for "Visual quality performance predictors" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,437, issued on July 28, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Visual quality performance predictors" was invented by Ido Guy (Haifa, Israel), Slava Novgorodov (Rishon LeZion, Israel) and Arnon Dagan (Kfar Vitkin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual search recommendation engine utilizes an image quality indication model for a visual search recommendation. Specifically, the visual search recommendation engine receives a search image as a search query at a search engine. The visual search recommendation engine provides the search image as an input into the image quality indication model, which is trained to output an...