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US 10,095,712 B2Granted
Data capture and identification system and process
AssigneeNant Holdings IP, LLC
InventorsWayne C. Boncyk, Ronald H. Cohen
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Abstract
An identification method and process for objects from digitally captured images thereof that uses data characteristics to identify an object from a plurality of objects in a database. The data is broken down into parameters such as a Shape Comparison, Grayscale Comparison, Wavelet Comparison, and Color Cube Comparison with object data in one or more databases to identify the actual object of a digital image.
Claims20
A mobile device image search system, comprising an image processing platform coupled with a memory and programmed to:
- store, in a database, a plurality of reference images including a plurality of reference image characteristics corresponding to a target object including at least one reference shape characteristic of the target object and associated with an information address linking to an item of content information;
- obtain, from a mobile device sensor of a mobile device, an image associated with the image, the image including a depiction of an object;
- receive ancillary information corresponding to the object;
- segment the image into a plurality of image segments;
- determine at least one image shape characteristic from at least one image segment from the plurality of image segments;
- recognize the object in image as the target object in the at least one image segment based at least in part on a search of the database using the at least one image shape characteristic;
- associate, in the database, the ancillary information with the target object in the plurality of reference images;
- in response to at least one of (a) identifying the target object in a subsequently-received second image segment corresponding to a received second image or (b) a query using the ancillary information:
- obtain the information address associated with the target object based on the ancillary information;
- and
- present the item of content information on a display of the mobile device based on the information address.
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A method, comprising:
- storing, in a database, a plurality of reference images including a plurality of reference image characteristics corresponding to a target object including at least one reference shape characteristic of the target object and associated with an information address linking to an item of content information;
- obtaining, from a mobile device sensor of a mobile device, an image associated with the image, the image including a depiction of an object;
- receiving ancillary information corresponding to the object;
- segmenting the image into a plurality of image segments;
- determining at least one image shape characteristic from at least one image segment from the plurality of image segments;
- recognizing the object in image as the target object in the at least one image segment based at least in part on a search of the database using the at least one image shape characteristic;
- associating, in the database, the ancillary information with the target object in the plurality of reference images;
- in response to at least one of (a) identifying the target object in a subsequently-received second image segment corresponding to a received second image or (b) receiving a query using the ancillary information:
- obtaining the information address associated with the target object based on the ancillary information;
- and
- presenting the item of content information on a display of the mobile device based on the information address.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.