Image recognition facilitation using remotely sourced content
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorJames Crenshaw
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Abstract
Upon determining (201) a need for image recognition facilitation content, a corresponding process (200) first determines (202 and 203) whether adequate local resources are available. When true, those local resources are used (204) to facilitate the desired image recognition. When false, however, one or more remote resources are accessed (205) and supplemental image recognition facilitation content is received (206) and locally used (207) to effect the desired image recognition process. Local memory management can optionally comprise, if desired, deletion (208) of some (or all) locally stored image recognition facilitation content and/or storage (209) of the remotely sourced image recognition facilitation content.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- determining a need for image recognition facilitation content;
- accessing local resources to determine whether the image recognition facilitation content is locally available;
- when the image recognition facilitation content is locally available, using the image recognition facilitation content to process an image;
- when the image recognition facilitation content is not locally available:
- accessing a first remote resource;
- receiving from a remote resource the image recognition facilitation content;
- using the image recognition facilitation content from the remote resource to process the image.
An apparatus comprising:
- a memory having first image recognition facilitation content stored therein and having available capacity to store supplemental image recognition facilitation content;
- an image information input;
- a processor operably coupled to the image information input and to the memory and having:
- an interface operably coupled to a remote memory, wherein the remote memory has at least some supplemental image recognition facilitation content stored therein;
- circuitry to effect a query of the remote memory via the interface when the memory does not have suitable image recognition facilitation content to permit reliable recognition of an image as corresponds to image information as received via the image information input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.