METHODS FOR OBJECT RECOGNITION AND RELATED ARRANGEMENTS
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Abstract
Methods and arrangements involving portable user devices such smartphones and wearable electronic devices are disclosed, as well as other devices and sensors distributed within an ambient environment. Some arrangements enable a user to perform an object recognition process in a computationally- and time-efficient manner. Other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, register or enroll physical objects into one or more object registries on which an object recognition process can be performed. Still other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, associate registered or enrolled objects with one or more items of metadata. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
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1-4. -4. (canceled)
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5. A method comprising:
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storing, within an object registry, model data and object metadata corresponding to a plurality of physical objects, the model data including data characterizing plural non-coplanar surface regions of different extents and locations and, optionally, data characterizing reflectance for each of said surface regions; obtaining query data representing a physical object-of-interest, wherein generation of the query data is initiated by a user; performing an object recognition process on the query data, the object recognition process including processing the query data, in conjunction with the stored model data, to determine whether the object-of-interest corresponds to any of the plurality of physical objects; and upon determining that the object-of-interest corresponds to at least one of the physical objects, transmitting a result to a device associated with the user, the result including object metadata associated with the at least one of the physical objects determined to correspond to the object-of-interest. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9)
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