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Image capture and identification system and process

  • US 7,899,243 B2
  • Filed: 12/12/2008
  • Issued: 03/01/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for identifying an object in an at least one given image including:

  • iteratively comparing at least one region in the at least one given image with regions in images in an at least one database until the best correspondence is found between the at least one region in the at least one given image and the at least one region in images in the at least one database;

    wherein the images in the least one database represent views of at least one object in at least one viewing orientation, wherein the comparing is performed by extracting and comparing parameters from the regions of the at least one given image and the images in the at least one database; and

    the method further including determining an address of an information site corresponding to the object using a computer remote from a portable device, sending the address to the portable device, and enabling the portable device to establish a connection to the information site via at least one network.

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