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 first device, comprising;
a display; a first processor; and a first non-transitory computer-storage medium storing a first set of computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the first processor, cause the first processor to: (a) prompt an user to select a first digital image of an animal; (b) prompt 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 prompt 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) cause a first communication to be sent from the first device to a third device, wherein the first communication includes the first digital image of the animal, the user-indicated eye location information and the user-indicated nose location information; (d) receive a second communication onto the first device from a third device in response to sending the first communication, wherein the second communication includes information resulting from comparing the user-indicated eye location information and user-indicated nose location information sent in the first communication with a pre-existing eye location information and a pre-existing nose location information stored on the third device, and in response displaying on the display an indication that an owner of the animal may have been identified; (e) show a first query in response to receiving the second communication on the display that asks the user whether the user wants to send the thrid communication to a second device, wherein the second device is associated with the owner of the animal; and (f) receive user input in response to the first query, and in response to receiving the user input sending a third communication to a second device, wherein the first query in (e) is both: 1) a query that asks the user to confirm that the animal in the second digital image and the animal in the first digital image are the same animal, and 2) a query that asks the user whether the user wants to send the third communication to the second device.