METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTENT PROCESSING
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Abstract
Disclosed are technologies are useful in enabling a smart phone to respond to a user'"'"'s environment, e.g., so it can serve as an intuitive hearing and seeing device. Some of the detailed arrangements involve using radio base station SDR equipment (e.g., at a cell tower) to perform image recognition operations for phones; forecasting service needs from remote processors delegating a remote execution task to a service provider chosen in a competitive process; using nearby processors, e.g., in an automobile, another phone, or set-top box, for remote execution tasks; phones with separable camera and/or illumination components; phone camera illumination using different colors of light; using search tree methods with image frames captured at different focuses; using a phone'"'"'s microprojector to aid in object identification; correcting lens aberrations by texture mapping captured imagery onto a corrective polygon surface using a phone GPU; etc. A great variety of other features are also detailed.
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74 Claims
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1-10. -10. (canceled)
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11. A method of operating a camera-equipped mobile phone to image a printed subject, the method comprising the acts:
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activating a first LED light source of a first visible light color, for a first interval, while capturing image data from a printed subject using said mobile phone; activating a second LED light source of a second visible light color different than the first, for a second interval different than the first, while capturing image data from said printed subject using said mobile phone; and taking an action using said captured image data. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69)
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44. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing programming instructions that, when executed by a processor of a camera-equipped mobile phone that is also equipped with a first LED light source of a first visible light color, and a second LED light source of a second visible light color, cause the mobile phone to perform acts including:
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activating only the first LED light source, for a first interval, while capturing image data from a subject using the camera of said mobile phone; activating only a second LED light source of a second visible light color different than the first, for a second interval different than the first, while capturing image data from said subject using the camera of said mobile phone; and taking an action using said captured image data. - View Dependent Claims (45)
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70. A smartphone system comprising a wireless transceiver, a microphone, a display, a battery, a processor, and at least first and second LED light sources of first and second visible light colors, respectively, the processor being configured to control the smartphone system to perform acts including:
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activate a first LED light source of a first visible light color, for a first interval, while capturing image data with the camera; activate a second LED light source of a second visible light color different than the first, for a second interval different than the first, while capturing image data with the camera; and perform an object recognition operation using said captured image data. - View Dependent Claims (71, 72, 73, 74)
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