Image capture and identification system and process
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1. A system comprising:
- a camera that captures an image;
a telephony device having a camera to capture an image wherein said telephony device is programmed to identify the image;
distinguish the object from others;
associate the object with other known objects and further wherein said telephony device sends the captured image and identification of said image to a service;
the service programmed to receive the image and the telephony device transmitted information of said image, and to further identify an object within the image;
distinguish the object from others using a database that stores image characteristics of target objects including diverse types of target objects;
associate the object with an information address; and
return the address to the telephony device; and
the telephony device further programmed to utilize the address to retrieve an item of information related to the object.
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Abstract
An identification method and process for objects from digitally captured images thereof that uses image characteristics to identify an object from a plurality of objects in a database. The image is broken down into parameters such as a Shape Comparison, Grayscale Comparison, Wavelet Comparison, and Color Cube Comparison with object data in one or more databases to identify the actual object of a digital image.
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1. A system comprising:
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a camera that captures an image; a telephony device having a camera to capture an image wherein said telephony device is programmed to identify the image;
distinguish the object from others;
associate the object with other known objects and further wherein said telephony device sends the captured image and identification of said image to a service;the service programmed to receive the image and the telephony device transmitted information of said image, and to further identify an object within the image;
distinguish the object from others using a database that stores image characteristics of target objects including diverse types of target objects;
associate the object with an information address; and
return the address to the telephony device; andthe telephony device further programmed to utilize the address to retrieve an item of information related to the object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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