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US 7,680,324 B2Granted
Use of image-derived information as search criteria for internet and other search engines
AssigneeEvryx Technologies, Inc.
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.
Claims18
A system comprising:
- a portable device that optically captures an image and transmits information regarding the image to a distal server;
- at least one of the device and the server deriving a search term directly from at least one of the image and the transmitted information, where the search term is derived according to an indexing system of a search engine;
- at least one of the device and the server causing the search term to be submitted to the search engine that indexes different types of publicly accessible content information;
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- the search engine using the search term to produce a results set, and causing at least a portion of the results set to be transmitted back to the portable device.
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A system comprising:
- a cell phone that optically captures an image, and transmits information regarding the image to a distal server;
- at least one of the phone and the server deriving a search term directly from at least one of the image and the transmitted information, where the search term is derived according to an indexing system of a search engine;
- at least one of the phone and the server causing the search term to be submitted to the search engine that indexes different types of publicly accessible content information;
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- the search engine using the search term to produce a results set, and causing at least a portion of the results set to be transmitted back to the cell phone.
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A method of using a search engine to provide search results to a portable device, the method comprising:
- capturing an image using a portable device;
- the portable device transmitting information regarding the image to a distal server;
- at least one of the device and the server automatically deriving a search term directly from at least one of the image and the transmitted information, where the search term is derived according to an indexing system of a search engine;
- at least one of the device and the server causing the search term to be submitted to a search engine that indexes different types of publicly accessible content information;
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- the search engine using the search term to produce the results set, and causing at least a portion of the result set to be transmitted back to the portable device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.