Facial Recognition Lost Pet Identifying System

摘要

A server system stores a database of records. Each record stores a digital image of a pet, facial recognition markers, and owner identification information. An owner may register his/her pet using a cellular telephone and a mobile app. The owner is prompted to supply a digital photograph of the pet and to enter eye and nose location information. The system generates therefrom facial recognition markers and stores the markers in a record. If a lost pet is found, a finding user can use a cellular telephone to take a picture of the animal and to enter eye and nose location information. The system generates markers and compares the markers in a facial recognition process to other stored markers to identify records of animals that resemble the lost pet. If the record of the lost pet is identified, then owner identification information in the record is used to contact the owner.

主权项

1. A mobile application (mobile app) for execution on a wireless mobile communication device, the mobile app comprising processor-executable instructions for:
(a) prompting the user to use the wireless mobile communication device to generate a first digital image of an animal; (b) prompting the user to indicate where on the first digital image of the animal an eye is located thereby generating user-indicated eye location information, and prompting the user to indicate where on the first digital image of the animal a nose is located thereby generating user-indicated nose location information; (c) causing a first wireless communication to be sent from the wireless mobile communication device, wherein the first wireless communication includes the first digital image of the animal, the user-indicated eye location information and the user-indicated nose location information; (d) receiving a second wireless communication onto the wireless mobile communication device and in response displaying an indication that an owner of the animal may have been found; (e) causing a first query to be displayed on the wireless mobile communication device; and (f) receiving user input in response to the first query and in response facilitating communicating to the owner of the animal that the animal has been found.