System and method for using a mobile telephone to retrieve information about an article
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1. A system for using a mobile telephone to retrieve information about an article, comprising:
- a camera, associated with said mobile telephone, that records an image of coded data associated with said article; and
a database, remote from said mobile telephone, that supplies information about said article to said mobile telephone based on a received, decoded form of said coded data derived from said image.
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A system for, and method of, using a mobile telephone to retrieve information about an article and an associated mobile telephone. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a camera, associated with the mobile telephone, that records an image of coded data associated with the article and (2) a database, remote from the mobile telephone, that supplies information about the article to the mobile telephone based on a received, decoded form of the coded data derived from the image.
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1. A system for using a mobile telephone to retrieve information about an article, comprising:
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a camera, associated with said mobile telephone, that records an image of coded data associated with said article; and
a database, remote from said mobile telephone, that supplies information about said article to said mobile telephone based on a received, decoded form of said coded data derived from said image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of using a mobile telephone to retrieve information about an article, comprising:
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recording, with a camera associated with said mobile telephone, an image of coded data associated with said article; and
supplying, from a database remote from said mobile telephone, information about said article to said mobile telephone based on a received, decoded form of said coded data derived from said image. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A mobile telephone, comprising:
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a camera;
software that receives an image associated with an article from said camera, decodes coded data contained in said image and queues said data for transmission to a database remote from said mobile telephone; and
a display that receives and displays information about said article from said database.
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