Providing retail shopping assistance
AssigneeBank of America Corporation
InventorsMatthew A. Calman, Erik Stephen Ross
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for using real-time video analysis and AR or the like to assist the user of mobile devices with commerce activities. Through the use of real-time vision object recognition products, points of sale or other retail shopping objects can be recognized in the real-time video stream and can be matched to shopping assistance related information regarding the retail shopping object. The shopping assistance related information may be presented to the user of the mobile device in conjunction with display of the associated retail shopping object in a live video stream or presented audibly or otherwise non-visually. In some embodiments, the mobile device functions as a transaction device.
Claims54
A method for providing shopping assistance related information, the method comprising:
- identifying, via a computing device processor, which objects in an image captured on a mobile communication device correspond to a retail shopping object;
- determining, via a computing device processor, which of one or more retail shopping objects identified in the image have associated shopping assistance related information;
- and
- presenting, via a communication device on the mobile communication device, one or more shopping assistance related information indicators.
An apparatus for providing shopping assistance related information, the apparatus comprising:
- a computing platform having a processor, a memory in communication with the processor, and
- image capture logic stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to capture an image, and
- retail shopping object identification logic stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to identify which objects in the image captured by a mobile communication device correspond to a retail shopping object, and
- shopping assistance related information logic stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to determine whether the identified retail shopping object has associated shopping assistance related information;
- and
- shopping assistance related information presentation logic stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to present, on a display of the mobile communication device, one or more shopping assistance related information indicators, each shopping assistance related information indicator presented proximate a location of the retail shopping object determined to have associated shopping assistance related information.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions for providing health related information, the instructions comprising:
- instructions for identifying which objects in an image captured on a mobile communication device correspond to a retail shopping object;
- instructions for determining which of one or more retail shopping objects identified in the image have associated shopping assistance related information;
- and
- instructions for presenting one or more shopping assistance related information indicators with an image displayed on the mobile communication device, each shopping assistance related information indicator presented proximate a location of the one or more determined retail shopping objects.
A method for providing shopping assistance related information, the method comprising:
- identifying, via a server in communication with a mobile communication device, which objects in an image captured on a mobile communication device correspond to a retail shopping object;
- determining, via the server, which of one or more retail shopping objects identified in the image have associated shopping assistance related information;
- and
- communicating instructions to the mobile communication device, via the server, for presenting a display of the image on the mobile communication device, one or more shopping assistance related information indicators, each shopping assistance related information indicator presented proximate a location of the one or more retail shopping objects determined to have associated shopping assistance related information.
An apparatus for providing shopping assistance related information, the apparatus comprising:
- a server having a processor, a memory in communication with the processor, and
- communication logic stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to receive data from a mobile communication device, the data corresponding to one or more objects in an image captured by the mobile communication device;
- retail shopping object identification logic stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to identify which objects in the image captured by the mobile communication device correspond to a retail shopping object;
- shopping assistance related information logic stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to determine whether the identified retail shopping object has associated shopping assistance related information;
- and
- shopping assistance related information presentation logic stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to communicate instructions for presenting, on a display of the mobile communication device, one or more shopping assistance related information indicators, each shopping assistance related information indicator presented proximate a location of the retail shopping object determined to have associated shopping assistance related information.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions for execution on a server in communication with a mobile communication device, the instructions for providing shopping assistance related information, the instructions comprising:
- instructions for identifying which objects in an image captured on a mobile communication device correspond to a retail shopping object;
- instructions for determining which of one or more retail shopping objects identified in the image have associated shopping assistance related information;
- and
- instructions for communicating instructions to the mobile communication device for presenting one or more shopping assistance related information indicators with the image displayed on the mobile communication device, each shopping assistance related information indicator presented proximate a location of the one or more determined retail shopping objects.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.