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Automated Food Recognition and Nutritional Estimation With a Personal Mobile Electronic Device

  • US 20160063692A1
  • Filed: 12/11/2014
  • Published: 03/03/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A food recognition assistant embodied in one or more non-transitory machine accessible storage media, the food recognition assistant comprising instructions executable by one or more processors to cause a personal mobile electronic device to:

  • receive a single digital image;

    execute one or more feature detection algorithms using at least two different scales of resolution to determine one or more salient regions of the image without relying on a user to specify the one or more salient regions, the one or more salient regions depicting food;

    execute a semantic reasoning technique to identify a food present in the image by comparing a characteristic of the one or more salient regions with a characteristic of a known food; and

    by an output device of the personal mobile electronic device, output a name of the identified food.

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