MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE WITH IMAGING CAPABILITY

摘要

A system and method for performing object recognition with a mobile computing device (110) and server (120) is disclosed. The mobile computing device (110), preferably a camera phone, is configured to capture (302) digital pictures or video, extract (304) visual features from the image data, and transmit (306) the visual features to a server via the cellular network or Internet, for example. Upon receipt, the server (120) compares the extracted features to the features of a plurality of known objects to identify (308) one or more items depicted in the image data. Depending on the item identified, the server may execute one or more predetermined actions including transmitting (312) product information to the mobile phone. The product information may specify the price, quantity, availability, location information for the identified item.