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US 8,478,047 B2Granted
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.
Claims25
An information retrieval system comprising:
- a device connection configured to couple with a device and obtain a digital representation related to an object from the device;
- and
- a content identification platform configured to:
- obtain the digital representation via the device connection;
- recognize the object as a target object from the digital representation;
- derive a query strategy targeting at least one search engine based on at least one object attribute determined from the target object;
- obtain a result set from the at least one search engine in response to submission of a query according to the query strategy;
- process the result set to form a tailored result set for the device;
- and
- cause the tailored result set to be transmitted to the device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.