Object information derived from object images
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1. An interactive system comprising:
- a sensor device having at least one sensor 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 configured to;
receive the digital representation, including the non-visual information, from the sensor device;
derive a query from at least one of the digital representation and the non-visual information, the query including key information allowing a database to access its indexing system; and
cause a result set related to the query to be returned to an interactive device upon submission of the query to the database.
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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. An interactive system comprising:
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a sensor device having at least one sensor 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 configured to; receive the digital representation, including the non-visual information, from the sensor device; derive a query from at least one of the digital representation and the non-visual information, the query including key information allowing a database to access its indexing system; and cause a result set related to the query to be returned to an interactive device upon submission of the query to the database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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