Data capture and identification system and process

• US 8,224,077 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2011
• Issued: 07/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC (NantWorks, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC (NantWorks, LLC)
• Inventors: Cohen, Ronald H, Boncyk, Wayne C
• Primary Examiner(s): Sherali, Ishrat I
• Application Number:
  US13/005,716
• Publication Number:
  US 20110268317A1
• Time in Patent Office: 551 Days
• Field of Search: 705 26- 27, 705/23, 382/305, 382/165, 382/209, 382/218, 382/100, 382/181, 382/224
• US Class Current: 382/165
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5854 using shape and object relationship
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/00 Pattern recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/462 Salient features, e.g. scale invariant feature transforms [SIFT]
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/56 relating to colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/7515 Shifting the patterns to accommodate for positional errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/142 using hand-held instruments; Constructional details of the instruments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03

Abstract

An identification method and process for objects from digitally captured images thereof that uses data characteristics to identify an object from a plurality of objects in a database. The data 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.

Claims

1. A digital image processing system, the system comprising:

a object database storing image characteristics of target objects including diverse types of target objects and storing object information associated with at least some of the target objects; and

at least one image processing server configured to;

receive over a network digital image data from a first remote device, the digital image data representative of an image captured by the first remote device where the image comprises a representation of an object;

distinguish the object from other target objects using the object database based on image characteristics derived from the digital image data;

associate the object with returned information corresponding to object information of a selected target object in the object database; and

return the returned information to a second remote device.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least a second image processing server configured to operate in parallel with the at least one image processing server while using the object database to distinguish the object from other target object.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the returned information comprises a network address.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the network address comprises a URL.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the returned information relates to a commercial transaction.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the returned information relates to initiating a software process on the second remote device.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the object comprises a symbol.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the symbol comprises at least one of an alphanumeric character, a barcode, and a two dimensional matrix.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the network comprises the Internet.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the network comprises a wireless network.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the image data is representative of motion imagery of the object.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the object database comprises image characteristics of multiple views of target objects.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the image data comprises an image of the object.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the image data comprises image characteristics related to the object.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the first remote device comprises a telephony device.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the second remote device is different from the first remote device.