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US 2014/0177922 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.
Claims37
An image-based transaction system comprising:
- an image sensor configured to capture image data of a face;
- and
- an image processing device coupled with the image sensor and configured to:
- recognize the face as a known target object from a known object database based on features derived from the image data;
- retrieve target object information from a information indexing system and that is associated with the known target object, and wherein the target object information includes an address and an identity of a specific known target object associated with the face;
- and
- enable a device to initiate a transaction based on the target object information, at least using the address and the identity, where the transaction relates to the specific known target object.
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