System to distinguish between visually identical objects
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsThomas T. Hanis, Bruce H. Hyre
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Abstract
A method to include an identifier as metadata associated with a captured image is provided. The method may include receiving, by a device, an image and a unique identifier associated with the image, wherein the received image is a frame associated with a video stream. The method may also include storing the unique identifier as metadata associated with the received image, whereby the metadata is linked to a specific frame in the video stream according to a plurality of parameters, and whereby the unique identifier is received from a unique ID reader which reads a tag attached to an object included in the image.
Claims8
A method to include an identifier as metadata associated with a captured image, the method comprising:
- receiving an image and a unique identifier associated with the image, wherein the received image is a frame associated with a video stream;
- storing, in a repository, an association linking a sensor associated with the received unique identifier to a camera associated with a unique ID reader that read a tag attached to an object included in the image;
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- storing the unique identifier as metadata associated with the received image, wherein the metadata is linked to a specific frame in the video stream according to a plurality of parameters, and wherein the unique identifier is received from the unique ID reader which reads the tag attached to the object included in the image, and wherein the stored metadata includes the camera associated with the unique ID reader and a timestamp indicating a time when the unique ID reader read the tag attached to the object included in the image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.