Method for acquisition and distribution of product price information
First Claim
1. A method for determining product price information, includingcapturing a data signal including image data, voice data and/or keypad input data, the captured data signal including information related to a price of a product, to a point of retail of the product and to a type of the product;
- determining metadata including a geographic position of the capturing and a time of the capturing;
determining a piece of product price information including the type of the product, the price of the product, and the point of retail by analyzing the captured data signal;
determining a probability of correctness of the piece of product price information as credibility data of the piece of product price information, the probability of correctness being based at least in part on signal quality indicating whether noise has degraded the captured data signal and further depending on personal credibility data of a user of a device at which the data signal has been captured, the personal credibility data being derived from at least one of credibility data of information previously provided by the user and information about personal credibility of the user provided by other users; and
including the piece of product price information, the metadata and the respective credibility data into a database.
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Abstract
A method for determining product price information, includes capturing a data signal including image data, voice data, and/or keypad input data, the captured data signal including information related to a price of a product, to a point of retail of the product and to a type of the product; determining metadata including a geographic position of the capturing and a time of the capturing; determining a piece of product price information including the type of the product, the price of the product, and the point of retail by analyzing the captured data signal; determining credibility data of the piece of product price information; and including the piece of product price information, the metadata and the respective credibility data into a database.
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14 Claims
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1. A method for determining product price information, including
capturing a data signal including image data, voice data and/or keypad input data, the captured data signal including information related to a price of a product, to a point of retail of the product and to a type of the product; -
determining metadata including a geographic position of the capturing and a time of the capturing; determining a piece of product price information including the type of the product, the price of the product, and the point of retail by analyzing the captured data signal; determining a probability of correctness of the piece of product price information as credibility data of the piece of product price information, the probability of correctness being based at least in part on signal quality indicating whether noise has degraded the captured data signal and further depending on personal credibility data of a user of a device at which the data signal has been captured, the personal credibility data being derived from at least one of credibility data of information previously provided by the user and information about personal credibility of the user provided by other users; and including the piece of product price information, the metadata and the respective credibility data into a database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 13)
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7. A mobile device, including
a capturing device including a still image camera, a video recorder, a microphone and/or a keypad adapted to capture a data signal relating to at least one of a price of a product, a type of the product, a point of retail, a document of retail and voice information; - and
circuitry configured to determine a time of capturing; detect a geographic position at the time of capturing, determine a piece of product price information including the type of the product, the price of the product, and the point of retail by analyzing the captured data signal; determine a probability of correctness of the piece of product price information as credibility data of the piece of product price information, the probability of correctness being based at least in part on signal quality indicating whether noise has degraded the captured data signal and further depending on personal credibility data of a user of a device at which the data signal has been captured, the personal credibility data being derived from at least one of credibility data of information previously provided by the user and information about personal credibility of the user provided by other users; and transmit, to a server over a network, the credibility data and at least one of the captured data signal together with metadata including the time of capturing and the geographic position of capturing and a piece of product price information derived from the captured data signal together with the metadata.
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8. A server, including
circuitry configured to receive input data including information related to a type of a product, to a price of the product, and to a point of retail, the input data further including metadata, the metadata including a time of capturing of a data signal from which data signal the information is derived, and a geographic position of the capturing of the data signal; -
access a local and/or remote storage, further adapted to transmit a piece of product price information including the type of the product, the price of the product, and the point of retail together with the metadata to the storage; determine the piece of product price information by analyzing the information and/or the data signal; and determine, and/or to receive via the communication interface, a probability of correctness of the piece of product price information as credibility data related to the information, the probability of correctness being based at least in part on signal quality indicating whether noise has degraded the captured data signal and further depending on personal credibility data of a user of a device at which the data signal has been captured, the personal credibility data being derived from at least one of credibility data of information previously provided by the user and information about personal credibility of the user provided by other users. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program including computer-program instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method comprising
capturing a data signal including image data, voice data and/or keypad input data, the captured data signal including information related to a price of a product, to a point of retail of the product and a type of the product; -
determining metadata including a geographic position of the capturing and a time of the capturing; determining a piece of product price information including the type of the product, the price of the product, and the point of retail by analyzing the captured data signal; determining a probability of correctness of the piece of product price information as credibility data of the piece of product price information, the probability of correctness being based at least in part on signal quality indicating whether noise has degraded the captured data signal and further depending on personal credibility data of a user of a device at which the data signal has been captured, the personal credibility data being derived from at least one of credibility data of information previously provided by the user and information about personal credibility of the user provided by other users; and including the piece of product price information, the metadata and the respective credibility information into a database.
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12. A method for determining product price information, including
capturing, by a microphone, a data signal including voice data including information related to a price of a product, to a point of retail of the product and/or a type of the product; -
determining metadata including a geographic position of the capturing and a time of the capturing; determining a piece of product price information including the type of the product, the price of the product, and the point of retail by analyzing the captured data signal; determining a probability of correctness of the piece of product price information as credibility data of the piece of product price information, the probability of correctness being based at least in part on signal quality indicating whether noise has degraded the captured data signal and further depending on at least one of personal credibility data of a user of a device at which the data signal has been captured, the personal credibility data being derived from at least one of credibility data of information previously provided by the user and information about personal credibility of the user provided by other users; and including the piece of product price information, the credibility data, and the metadata into a data-base. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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