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Method and apparatus for capturing and processing content from context sensitive documents on a mobile device

  • US 10,140,257 B2
  • Filed: 08/02/2013
  • Issued: 11/27/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • selecting, by a mobile device based on at least one run-time characteristic of the mobile device, a template stored in a memory of the mobile device, the selected template describes data content of at least one document;

    capturing, on the mobile device, an image of a document;

    determining, by the mobile device, that the image corresponds to the at least one document described by the selected template based on at least one of an operating condition at the mobile device and contextual information in the document by verifying that at least one region in the image corresponds to the at least one document described by the selected template;

    identifying, by the mobile device, the at least one region in the image in correspondence with a region in the at least one document described by the selected template based on at least one of the operating condition at the mobile device and the contextual information in the document;

    processing information in the identified region in the image based at least in part on a location of the mobile device, including validating accuracy of a postal address in the identified region in the image based on the location of the mobile device and routing a package to the postal address in the identified region in the image when the location of the mobile device does not correspond to the postal address;

    aggregating, by the mobile device, application specific information from the processed information based on at least one of the operating condition at the mobile device and contextual information in the document; and

    presenting, by the mobile device, aggregated application specific information to a user program operating on one of the mobile device and a remote device connected with the mobile device.

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