发明名称 System and method for updating geographic data
摘要 According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for utilizing the effort expended by a user in responding to a CAPTCHA request to automatically transcribe text from images in order to verify, retrieve and/or update geographic data associated with geographic locations at which the images were recorded.
申请公布号 US9076061(B2) 申请公布日期 2015.07.07
申请号 US201213445352 申请日期 2012.04.12
申请人 Google Inc. 发明人 Zennaro Marco;Vincent Luc;Cheung Kong Man;Abraham David
分类号 G06K7/10;G06F7/04;G06K9/32;G06F17/28;G06F17/30 主分类号 G06K7/10
代理机构 Dority & Manning, P.A. 代理人 Dority & Manning, P.A.
主权项 1. A method for updating geographic data associated with a geographic location, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more computing devices, at least one image recorded at the geographic location; identifying, by the one or more computing devices, an area within the at least one image, the area including text, wherein identifying an area includes identifying coordinates of a location of the area within the at least one image; transmitting, by the one or more computing devices, the area to one out of a group of Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computer and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) systems, wherein a language associated with the geographic location is used to select the one out of the group of CAPTCHA systems; receiving, by the one or more computing devices, a set of transcription attempts from the CAPTCHA system; analyzing, by the one or more computing devices, the set of transcription attempts; generating, by the one or more computing devices, a transcription of the text based on the act of analyzing; and updating, by the one or more computing devices, the geographic data associated with the geographic location based on the transcription of the text associated with the identified coordinates of the location of the area within the at least one image.
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