METHOD FOR ACQUISITION AND DISTRIBUTION OF PRODUCT PRICE INFORMATION
First Claim
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- 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 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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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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19 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 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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 18)
- A method for determining product price information, including
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- 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; a clock for determining a time of capturing; a position detection device adapted to detect a geographic position at the time of capturing, and a communication interface adapted to transmit, to a server over a network, 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. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
- A mobile device, including
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- A server, including
a communication interface adapted 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; a storage accessor adapted to 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. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
- A server, including
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- 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 credibility data of the piece of product price information; including the piece of product price information, the metadata and the respective credibility information into a database.
- A computer program including computer-program instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method comprising
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- A method for determining product price information, including
capturing, by a microphone, 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; including the piece of product price information and the metadata into a data-base. - View Dependent Claims (19)
- A method for determining product price information, including
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