Patent ID: 9684826
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06Q,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of searching for electronic coupons or other offers based on an image captured by a camera of a mobile user device of a product for sale in a merchant's store, wherein the product is recognized in the image by the mobile user device without sending the image to a remote computer for image recognition, the method comprising: obtaining, in memory of a mobile user device, a set of object-recognition classifiers, the object-recognition classifiers each specifying one or more algorithms and parameters of those algorithms by which respective products among a plurality of products in a merchant store are recognized in images; commanding, with one or more processors of the mobile user device, a camera of the mobile user device to capture an image; receiving the captured image; receiving, via an antenna of the mobile user device, a wirelessly transmitted beacon identifier that indicates a location of the mobile user device within the merchant store, wherein indicating the location of the mobile user device includes distinguishing the location of the mobile user device from a plurality of other locations in the merchant store where other wireless beacon identifiers are transmitted; selecting a subset of the object-recognition classifiers based on the received beacon identifier, the subset of the object-recognition classifiers being configured to indicate whether at least some products positioned within range of the received wireless beacon identifier appear in the image; recognizing a product in the image by executing the algorithms specified by the subset of object-recognition classifiers with the one or more processors of the mobile user device; and obtaining a coupon or other offer based on the recognized product.