Image Search Intent Prediction With First-Round Recommendations

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional image search methods require users to repeatedly re-upload images or clarify requirements manually when initial results do not meet their needs, leading to inefficiency and lack of personalized guidance.

Innovation Solution

An image-based search processing method that determines a user's original search intent from an uploaded image and generates both a search result and recommended content in the first round of interaction, using a server to analyze the image and provide personalized guidance and additional information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users manually clarify requirements or re-upload images when search results do not meet their needs, then search accuracy can be improved, but search efficiency and user convenience deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch accuracyVSAvoidsearch efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the uploaded image to predict potential user requirements before the user actually expresses them. By generating recommended content in advance based on image analysis, the system prepares multiple possible search directions, allowing users to quickly select from pre-analyzed options rather than manually describing requirements from scratch.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where initial search results and recommended content are presented to users, who can then provide implicit feedback by selecting from recommended options or explicit feedback by providing corrections. This feedback loop allows the system to iteratively improve search accuracy while maintaining efficiency through automated interpretation of user responses.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If users manually clarify search requirements, then search precision can be improved, but the complexity of the search process increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch precisionVSAvoidsearch process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically analyzing the uploaded image and generating recommended search content without requiring manual user input. The system autonomously identifies objects, scenes, and potential search intents from the image, then presents refined search options to the user, reducing the complexity of the search process while maintaining or improving precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system acts as an intermediary between the user's image upload and the final search results. Instead of directly transmitting raw search queries, the system processes the image through multiple analysis stages, generates intermediate recommended content, and presents refined search options, thereby simplifying the overall process while improving precision through automated interpretation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Device complexity

If the system provides only basic search results, then the simplicity of the system is maintained, but the intelligence and user experience deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem simplicityVSAvoidintelligence and convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the search result delivery into multiple hierarchical levels: basic search results that maintain simplicity, and additional recommended content that provides intelligence and versatility. By dividing the output into optional layers (basic results plus enhanced recommendations), the system preserves core simplicity while offering advanced capabilities that adapt to user needs without forcing complexity on all users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements multi-functionality by combining basic image search capabilities with intelligent recommendation generation in a single unified platform. The same image analysis engine that produces basic results also generates enhanced recommended content, allowing the system to serve multiple functions (basic search, refined search, recommendation) without requiring separate systems, thereby maintaining relative simplicity while enhancing intelligence and versatility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12530397B2Image-based search processing method, electronic device and storage medium
Publication Date: 2026.01.20 BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided is an image-based search processing method, an electronic device and a storage medium, relating to the technical fields of computer vision, deep learning, natural language processing, and searching. The method includes: determining, in response to receiving an image sent by a terminal, a first requirement corresponding to the image, the first requirement including an original search intent of a user; generating a search result and a recommended content corresponding to the image according to the first requirement in a case where the first requirement meets a recommendation triggering condition; and returning the search result and the recommended content to the terminal to cause the terminal to output the search result and the recommended content on a search result page.