SYSTEM AND A METHOD TO RECOGNIZE A PRODUCT

摘要

A system, and a method adapted to recognize a physical product at a retailer's physical outlet through a cellular device, having a geographic positioning signaling means, utilized by a user of it. Product price tags are scanned, decoded, and the output data is queried against a product database to search for product matches. If there are multiple matches geographical positioning coordinates from the cellular device GPS, base stations or WI-FI access points are utilized to pick the correct product information in the database, which is then stored in a user database.

主权项

1. A system adapted to recognize a product through a cellular device, having a geographic positioning signaling means, utilized by a user of it, comprising:
a web scraping means to extract digital signals of product information from merchants' public websites; a product database, wherein said extracted digital signals of said product information are indexed, categorized and stored in a catalogue file for a retailer, and said retailers physical outlets geographical positioning coordinate signals being stored in said database; a user database, wherein recognized digital signals of said product information are stored in a file created by the user by online signaling of authorization to utilize said file; at least one digital signaling application program interface (API) adapted for a merchant to connect to said product database retailers catalogue file to update said digital signals of product information; a digitally stored application program (app) in said cellular device, providing said cellular device user to read a price tag with coded information regarding a product from said product in real time in a retailer's physical outlet; a location source in proximity to said user of said cellular device utilized to provide geographic positioning coordinate signals, whose position is accurately pin-pointed through its geographic position, thus geographically locating said cellular device user and said retailer's physical outlet, which obtains the user's current location by initiating an asynchronous request to detect the user's position, and queries the positioning hardware in said cellular device to receive up-to-date information from the underlying location information sources, thus geographically locating said cellular device user, and said retailers' physical outlet, wherein said application program starts said underlying location information sources signaling when the user has read the price tag with the digital signaling application program, said application program prompted by said user transmitting said read price tag information to said product database to be digitally stored in said created file; a searching means analyzing said product database for said digital signals of said read product price tag to match said stored digital product signals with said transmitted read price tag information; and means utilizing said geographical coordinate positioning correction locating said user, and said retailer's outlet to distinguish said read price tag information when multiple products with similar digital signal information are found by said searching means, whereby said read price tag signaling is stored in said created user file, when determined to belong to the correct retailers physical outlet.