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US 2013/0094708 A1Published application
Object Information Derived from Object Images
AssigneeNant Holdings IP, LLC
InventorsWayne C. Boncyk, Ronald H. Cohen
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Abstract
Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back locally to, or nearby, the device that captured the image.
Claims48
An interactive system comprising:
- an optical sensor capable of capturing image information representative of a displayed image on a display screen;
- and
- an image processing platform coupled with the optical sensor and configured to:
- identify features from the image information relating to the displayed image;
- recognize a target based on the features;
- associate the target with target information pertinent to the target;
- enable a transaction with an account based on the target information.
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A method of conducting a transaction with an interactive system, the method comprising
- providing access to a device having a display;
- displaying a displayed image on the display of the device;
- presenting the displayed image proximate to an optical sensor of the interactive system;
- and
- enabling performance of a transaction via the interaction active system based on the displayed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.