So by acquiring Like.com, Google also gained Riya's technology. Other patent filings have recently become public, suggesting Google has been working all along to apply visual query technology to searching for faces.
Google's recent patent filing for User Interface for Presenting Search Results for Multiple Regions of a Visual Query suggests that Google's visual search for smartphones may be evolving. When you snap a photo, it often includes many things like buildings in the background, street signs, or even people. ghd mk4 uk When you query that image, Google may break the photo into all those different pieces and search for each object within the picture -- including facial recognition searches.
Another Google patent, Facial Recognition With Social Network Aiding, was recently published in Europe even though it was filed around the time Google bought Like.com. The patent abstract describes facial recognition searches for "one or more likely names" of the people in the image. ghd outlet uk After this visual query has "potentially" matched one or more personal identifiers for each person, it will scour "communications applications, social networking applications, calendar applications, and collaborative applications" to create a list of possible identities for each person. The patent description also mentions that if the photo is tagged with a person's name, "that picture might be used in future facial recognition queries to recognize the person."
In regards to privacy, Google has several possible scenarios: to send only one of the "identifiers" to the person searching; to possibly allow only the person identified to make the photo public, or to send a request after a person is positively identified, ghd flat iron asking if the image can be a face search result for other people's visual queries from within their social network.
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