Object information derived from object images
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1. A system comprising:
- a sensor device capable of acquiring a digital representation of a scene, the digital representation comprising non-visual information; and
a processing platform coupled with the sensor device and that;
receives transmitted information related to the digital representation, including the non-visual information, from the sensor device;
derives a search term directly from at least one of the transmitted information and the non-visual information, the search term including a key allowing a search engine to access its indexing system; and
causes a result set related to search term to be returned to at least one of the sensor device and the processing platform upon submission of the search term to the search engine.
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Abstract
Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back locally to, or nearby, the device that captured the image.
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1. A system comprising:
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a sensor device capable of acquiring a digital representation of a scene, the digital representation comprising non-visual information; and a processing platform coupled with the sensor device and that; receives transmitted information related to the digital representation, including the non-visual information, from the sensor device; derives a search term directly from at least one of the transmitted information and the non-visual information, the search term including a key allowing a search engine to access its indexing system; and causes a result set related to search term to be returned to at least one of the sensor device and the processing platform upon submission of the search term to the search engine. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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