Patent ID: 11915478
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor for performing a method of determining a location of an object of interest, the method comprising:
Identifying, from a database of images, a set of plural images that relate to a geographical region of interest, each of the images having associated therewith image information;
applying an image recognition tool to each image in the set of images;
determining, based on the applying of the image recognition tool, which of the images include the object of interest and which of the images do not include the object of interest;
for at least one candidate location in the geographical region of interest, calculating a likelihood value of the object of interest existing at the candidate location using the image information for images in the set of plural images determined to include the object of interest and using the image information for images in the set of images determined not to include the object of interest; and
determining, based on the likelihood values, whether the object of interest exists at the at least one candidate location.