Patent ID: 9626000
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K

Claim:
1. A method of operating a portable electronic device, the method comprising: receiving by a processor device in the portable electronic device a high resolution image that captures a scene; processing by the processor device the high resolution image of the scene to produce a low resolution image relative to the high resolution image; processing by the processor device, the low resolution image to recognize a gesturing item in the low resolution image, which indicates a user-initiated gesture corresponding to a command to the portable electronic device; upon detection of gesturing, determining by the processing device the command from the user to the portable electronic device; causing by the processor, the portable electronic device to operate according to the command from the user to the portable electronic device; and applying optical character recognition processing by the processor to the high resolution image to detect text in the high resolution image.