Object information derived from object images
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1. A computer implemented visual search engine comprising:
- a searchable database indexing a collection of data associated with a plurality of known objects, the collection indexed according to a plurality of image-derived keys; and
a network-accessible search server coupled with the searchable database and, upon a processor in the server executing software instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable memory, configured to;
receive, from a mobile device over a network, image-related data from an image of a query object;
derive a search query associated with the query object and including a first set of image-derived keys derived from the image-related data;
submit the search query to the searchable database;
receive a results set, including an information address associated with at least one known object from the plurality of known objects, from the searchable database; and
transmit at least a portion of the results set back to the mobile device over the network.
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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 computer implemented visual search engine comprising:
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a searchable database indexing a collection of data associated with a plurality of known objects, the collection indexed according to a plurality of image-derived keys; and a network-accessible search server coupled with the searchable database and, upon a processor in the server executing software instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable memory, configured to; receive, from a mobile device over a network, image-related data from an image of a query object; derive a search query associated with the query object and including a first set of image-derived keys derived from the image-related data; submit the search query to the searchable database; receive a results set, including an information address associated with at least one known object from the plurality of known objects, from the searchable database; and transmit at least a portion of the results set back to the mobile device over the network. - 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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