Method and apparatus for recommending contact information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9930156-B2
Application number	US-201615207130-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 11, 2016
Priority date	Jul 30, 2015
Publication date	Mar 27, 2018
Grant date	Mar 27, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure, pertaining to the field of terminal technologies, relates to a method and apparatus for recommending contact information. The method may include: determining an age of an owner of a mobile terminal; determining, based on the determined age of the owner and stored contact photos of a plurality of contacts, a candidate contact from the plurality of contacts; and displaying, in response to receiving a share instruction with respect to a designated image, contact information of the determined candidate contact, the designated image being any image in a photo album to be shared. According to the present disclosure, one or more candidate contacts are determined from a plurality of contacts, and upon receipt of a share instruction with respect to a designated image, contact information of the determined candidate contact is displayed. This may improve speed and accuracy of searching for contact information, reduce search time, and enhance image sharing efficiency.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for recommending contact information, comprising:
determining, by a processor, an age of an owner of a mobile terminal;
determining, by a processor, based on the determined age of the owner and stored contact photos of a plurality of contacts, a candidate contact from the plurality of contacts; and
displaying, by a processor, in response to receiving a share instruction with respect to a designated image, contact information of the determined candidate contact, the designated image being any image in a photo album to be shared;
wherein the determining of the age of the owner comprises:
acquiring a face image set of the owner;
obtaining a respective age corresponding to each face image in the face image set of the owner by performing age identification for each face image in the face image set of the owner; and
determining the age of the owner based on the respective age corresponding to each face image in the face image set of the owner; and

wherein the acquiring of the face image set of the owner comprises:
acquiring self-shot face images from a stored image library;
obtaining a plurality of face image sets by:
categorizing each face image of the acquired self-shot face images as being of a respective person, and
obtaining a face image set for each distinct person of the respective persons, by associating with a face image set for a respective distinct person each of the acquired self-shot face images that is categorized as being of the respective distinct person; and

determining the face image set of the owner to be a face image set of the plurality of face image sets having the greatest number of face images among the plurality of obtained face image sets.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining, based on the determined age of the owner and stored contact photos of the plurality of contacts, of the candidate contact from the plurality of contacts comprises:
determining, based on the determined age of the owner, an age group of a contact associated with the photo album to be shared;
obtaining respective ages of each of the plurality of contacts by performing age identification for respective stored contact photos of each of the plurality of contacts; and
selecting the candidate contact from the plurality of contacts based on the obtained respective ages of the plurality of contacts and the determined age group.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the selecting of the candidate contact from the plurality of contacts based on the obtained respective ages of each of the plurality of contacts and the determined age group comprises:
selecting, based on the obtained respective ages of each of the plurality of contacts, contacts from the plurality of contacts with respective ages falling within the determined age group; and
obtaining the candidate contact by screening the selected contacts based on contacting frequencies of the selected contacts.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the obtaining of the candidate contact by screening the selected contacts based on contacting frequencies of the selected contacts comprises:
judging, based on respective contacting frequencies of the selected contacts, whether the selected contacts comprise a contact with a respective contacting frequency that is greater than a designated frequency; and
in response to a judgement that the selected contacts comprise a contact with a respective contacting frequency that is greater than the designated frequency, determining as the candidate contact the contact with a respective contacting frequency that is greater than the designated frequency.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the obtaining of the candidate contact by screening the selected contacts based on contacting frequencies of the selected contacts comprises:
judging, based on respective contacting frequencies of the selected contacts, whether the selected contacts comprise a contact with a respective contacting frequency that is greater than a designated frequency;
in response to a judgment that the selected contacts do not comprise a contact with a respective contacting frequency that is greater than the designated frequency, acquiring a designated number of contacts from the selected contacts according to a descending order of respective contacting frequencies of the selected contacts; and
determining as candidate contacts the acquired contacts.

6. An apparatus for recommending contact information, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory for storing instructions executable by the processor;
wherein the processor is configured to:
determine an age of an owner of a mobile terminal;
determine, based on the determined age of the owner of the mobile terminal and stored contact photos of a plurality of contacts, a candidate contact from the plurality of contacts; and
display, in response to receiving a share instruction with respect to a designated image, contact information of the determined candidate contact, the designated image being any image in a photo album to be shared;

wherein the processor is further configured to:
acquire a face image set of the owner;
obtain a respective age corresponding to each face image in the face image set of the owner by performing age identification for each face image in the face image set of the owner; and
determine the age of the owner based on the respective age corresponding to each face image in the face image set of the owner; and

wherein, the processor is further configured to:
acquire self-shot face images from a stored image library;
obtain a plurality of face image sets by:
categorizing each face image of the acquired self-shot face images as being of a respective person, and
obtaining a face image set for each distinct person of the respective persons, by associating with a face image set for a respective distinct person each of the acquired self-shot face images that is categorized as being of the respective distinct person; and

determine the face image set of the owner to be a face image set of the plurality of face image sets having the greatest number of face images among the plurality of obtained face image sets.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
determine, based on the determined age of the owner, an age group of a contact associated with the photo album to be shared;
obtain respective ages of each of the plurality of contacts by performing age identification for respective stored contact photos of each of the plurality of contacts; and
select the candidate contact from the plurality of contacts based on the obtained respective ages of the plurality of contacts and the determined age group.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
select, based on the obtained respective ages of each of the plurality of contacts, contacts from the plurality of contacts with respective ages falling within the determined age group; and
obtain the candidate contact by screening the selected contacts based on contacting frequencies of the selected contacts.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
judge, based on respective contacting frequencies of the selected contacts, whether the selected contacts comprise a contact with a respective contacting frequency that is greater than a designated frequency; and
in response to a judgement that the selected contacts comprise a contact with a respective contacting frequency that is greater than the designated frequency, determine as the candidate contact the contact with a respective contacting frequency that is greater than the designated frequency.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 , w

Assignees

• Xiaomi Inc

Inventors

• Zhang Tao
• Wang Baichao
• Hou Wendi

Classifications

• G06Q10/40 Primary

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• H04M1/2746 Primary

  Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use · CPC title

• H04M1/27475 Primary

  using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations · CPC title

• G06F16/9535

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• G06F16/00

  Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor · CPC title