Method and apparatus for conducting a search based on available data modes

摘要

An approach is provided for conducting a search based on an extraction of a search term from available sensor data. The approach involves determining sensor data associated with at least one device, the sensor data determined from among a plurality of available data modes. The approach also involved processing and/or facilitating a processing of the sensor data to cause, at least in part, an extraction of one or more search terms for at least one query. The approach further involves determining one or more results of the at least one query based, at least in part, on context information associated with the at least one device, user profile information associated with the at least one device, or a combination thereof.

主权项

1. A method comprising facilitating a processing of and/or processing (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal, the (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal by a processor based, at least in part, on the following:
a creation of one or more bounding boxes around one or more estimated text portions of sensor data associated with at least one device; an optical character recognition of the one or more estimated text portions within each of the one or more bounding boxes to determine recognized characters; a merger of some of the one or more bounding boxes into at least one merged box along a bounding box line of some of the estimated text portions based, at least in part, on the recognized characters within the each bounding box; an extraction, from some of the recognized characters that are within the remaining one or more bounding boxes that are not merged, of one or more search terms for at least one query based, at least in part, on the recognized characters within the at least one merged box; and a search based, at least in part, on the at least one query and the one or more search terms to generate one or more results of the at least one query, wherein the one or more bounding boxes are assigned an identification number and ranked in order from a top of an image to a bottom of the image sensed by way of an optical sensor.