Visual booking system
AssigneeAmadeus S.A.S.
InventorsDavid Renaudie, Nicolas Hauviller, Francois Montegut
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and program product implement visual booking operations to search for travel products and/or present travel recommendations associated with travel products to users based upon visual elements in one or more digital images captured by a wearable or mobile device. Visual elements may be extracted and inferred to identify one or more travel destination locations that are geographically remote from a current location of a user, and the identified travel destination locations may be used to search a travel database to identify at least one travel product for travel from a travel origination location to a travel destination location.
Claims35
A method of searching for a travel product, the method comprising:
- receiving a digital image;
- using at least one processing resource, analyzing a plurality of visual elements in the digital image to identify at least one travel destination location that is geographically remote from a current location of a user;
- and
- searching a travel database to identify at least one travel product for travel from a travel origination location to the travel destination location.
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A method of suggesting a travel product to a user, the method comprising:
- receiving digital images from a stream of digital images captured by a wearable image capture device while being worn by the user;
- analyzing a plurality of visual elements in at least one of the received digital images to identify at least one travel destination location that is geographically remote from a current location of the user;
- searching a travel database to identify at least one travel product for travel to the travel destination location;
- and
- causing the wearable image capture device to present an unsolicited recommendation associated with the at least one travel product to the user.
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A method of suggesting a travel product to a user, the method comprising:
- receiving digital images from a stream of digital images captured by a wearable image capture device while being worn by the user, wherein the wearable image capture device is switchable between continuous and on-demand modes;
- analyzing visual elements in at least one of the received digital images from the stream to identify at least one first travel destination location that is geographically remote from a current location of the user;
- searching a travel database to identify at least one travel product for travel to the travel destination location;
- and
- causing the wearable image capture device to present a travel recommendation associated with the first travel product to the user, wherein when the wearable image capture device is in the on-demand mode, the travel recommendation is presented only at user request, and wherein when the wearable image capture device is in the continuous mode, the travel recommendation is an unsolicited recommendation.
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A method of searching for a travel offer for a user, the method comprising:
- analyzing a plurality of digital images captured by a user device to identify at least one digital image captured as a visual bookmark for a travel offer, including, for the identified digital image, analyzing a plurality of visual elements in the identified digital image to identify a travel destination location that is geographically remote from a location at which such digital image is captured, wherein the travel offer is associated with the travel destination location;
- searching a database to identify the travel offer based upon analyzing the plurality of visual elements in the identified digital image;
- and
- presenting to the user a travel recommendation associated with the travel offer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.