Object information derived from object images

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8948544-B2
Application number	US-201414170236-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 31, 2014
Priority date	Nov 6, 2000
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile image capturing device comprising:
at least one sensor configured to capture a digital representation of a scene, the digital representation including an image and a sound; and
an identification platform coupled with the at least one sensor and configured to:
receive the digital representation from the at least one sensor;
recognize the scene as including an object associated with a target object based at least in part on the digital representa…

Assignees

• Nant Holdings Ip Llc

Inventors

• Boncyk Wayne C
• Cohen Ronald H

Classifications

• G06F2218/08

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F18/25

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N23/80

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/44

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F16/50

  Physics · mapped topic