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US 2011/0218018 A1Published application
Techniques for Retrieving Documents Using an Image Capture Device
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsDaja Phillips, Kurt Piersol, Gregory J. Wolff
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for retrieving electronic documents based upon images captured using an image capture device. One or more images captured by a user using an image capture device are used to search a set of documents to retrieve one or more documents that match the search query. The one or more documents retrieved by the search may then be provided to the user or some other recipient.
Claims20
A device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a storage medium coupled with the processor,
- wherein the processor is configured to:
- capture image data;
- form a search query based on the image data;
- communicate the search query to a search engine;
- and
- receive one or more electronic documents based on the search query.
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A method comprising:
- capturing, by an image capture device, image data;
- forming, by the image capture device, a search query based on the image data;
- communicating, by the image capture device, the search query to a search engine;
- receiving, by the image capture device, one or more documents from the search engine in response to the search query.
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A system comprising:
- an image capture device;
- and
- a server;
- wherein the image capture device is configured to:
- capture image data;
- form a search query based on the image data;
- and
- communicate the search query to the server;
- wherein the server is configured to:
- identify one or more electronic documents based on the search query;
- and
- communicate the one or more electronic documents to the image capture device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.