Object Information Derived From Object Images

摘要

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.

主权项

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.