Contextual menus based on image recognition
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorsShailesh Dinkar Govande, Madhura P. Tipnis
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Abstract
Contextual menus based on images submitted to a network based publication system are disclosed. Images depicting a variety of locales such as businesses, or other items, may be stored in an image repository in the system and used to identify images that users may submit as photograph images taken by cell phone, camera, webcam, a laptop with camera capability. After identification of the submitted image the system may categorize the image and provide the user a category driven menu relating to the photograph, the menu based on both the submitted image and the user's intent when he or she is capturing the image.
Claims25
A method comprising:
- using at least one processor and storage, receiving an image from a user;
- identifying and categorizing the image;
- generating a menu based on the category;
- and
- providing the menu for rendering to the user at a user interface.
A machine-readable storage device having embedded therein a set of instructions which, when executed by the machine, causes the machine to execute the following operations:
- receiving an image from a user;
- identifying and categorizing the image;
- generating a menu based on the category;
- and
- providing the menu for rendering to the user at a user interface.
A system comprising:
- at least one processor and storage configured to
- receive an image from a user,
- identify and categorize the image;
- generate a menu based on the category;
- and
- provide the menu for rendering to the user at a user interface.
A system comprising:
- first means for receiving an image from a user;
- second means for identifying and categorizing the image;
- third means for generating a menu based on the category;
- and
- fourth means for providing the menu for rendering to the user at a user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.