Object information derived from object images

• US 9,805,063 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2016
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• 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: Boncyk, Wayne C., Cohen, Ronald H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sherali, Ishrat I
• Application Number:
  US15/298,671
• Publication Number:
  US 20170039224A1
• Time in Patent Office: 376 Days
• Field of Search: 382100, 382305, 705 261- 271
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24554 Unary operations; Data partitioning operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/532 Query formulation, e.g. graphical querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• 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 16/7335 Graphical querying, e.g. query-by-region, query-by-sketch, query-by-trajectory, GUIs for designating a person/face/object as a query predicate end-user interface involving hot spots associated with the video H04N21/4725; end-user interface for selecting a Region of Interest H04N21/4728
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/25 Fusion techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2218/08 Feature extraction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 : Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 : Third-party assisted
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 : Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0625 : Directed, with specific intent or strategy
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 : Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/00 : Image analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/10 : Image acquisition document image scanning and transmission H04N1/00; control of digital cameras H04N23/60
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/255 : Detecting or recognising potential candidate objects based on visual cues, e.g. shapes
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/768 : using context analysis, e.g. recognition aided by known co-occurring patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/00 : Scenes; Scene-specific elements control of digital cameras H04N23/60
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/10 : Terrestrial scenes scenes under surveillance with static cameras G06V20/52; scenes perceived from the exterior of a vehicle G06V20/56; scenes perceived from the interior of a vehicle G06V20/59
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 : in augmented reality scenes
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/46 : Extracting features or characteristics from the video content, e.g. video fingerprints, representative shots or key frames
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/80 : Recognising image objects characterised by unique random patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 2201/07 : Target detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 : Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/18 : Eye characteristics, e.g. of the iris
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/80 : Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 : Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence

Abstract

Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing de ice 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.

Claims

1. A method of enabling an interaction with digital content, comprising:

obtaining, by a mobile device, a digital representation of a scene, the digital representation of the scene including location data associated with the device;

recognizing, by at least one of a server and the mobile device, an object in the scene as a target object based at least in part on the location data of the digital representation;

deriving, by at least one of the server and the mobile device, a search term associated with the target object based on the digital representation;

identifying, by at least one of the server and the mobile device, an information address based on the search term; and

accessing, by the mobile device, content information associated with the target object based on the information address.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting the content information on a display of the mobile device, wherein the content information comprises graphics associated with the target object.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the content information on the display of the mobile device based on at least one of the position and orientation of the target object relative to the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deriving, by at least one of the server and the mobile device, object attributes associated with the identified target object based on the digital representation; and

deriving, by at least one of the server and the mobile device, the search term based on the object attributes.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the object attributes includes at least one of a name attribute, a type attribute, a location attribute, and a position attribute.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital representation further comprises non-visual information.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising recognizing, by at least one of the server and the mobile device, the object as the target object based on non-visual information.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the target object is a non-visual object.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the target object is an object associated with a game.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising executing, by the mobile device, a transaction to purchase the target object.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising deriving, by at least one of the server and the mobile device, the search term associated with the target object based at least in part on the location data of the digital representation.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting, by at least one of the server and the mobile device, the content information for access based on a location of the target object.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling a user to interact with the target object via the mobile device.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the search term comprises information or a key utilized by a search engine to access an indexing system for a search.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the search term further comprises at least one of a keyword, a portion of an image, a logo, a bar code, and a symbol.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the search term comprises at least one of a name, a type, a color, a position, a characteristic, a category, and a location.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the search term comprises a name, the search term further comprising at least one of a name of a product, a name of a company, a name of a person, a name of an actor, a proper name, a name of a movie, and a name of the target object.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the search term is associated with a transaction and the method further comprising presenting, by the mobile device, an offer to execute the transaction.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the transaction comprises a financial transaction.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the offer at least one of an offer for a purchase of a product associated with the target object and an offer for a purchase of the target object.