Patent ID: 8788529
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented process for obtaining information about an object in an image, comprising: authoring images by appending information about an object in each image to obtain a database of authored images; acquiring an image containing an object; matching the object in the acquired image to an object in an authored image in the database using a content-based image retrieval technique wherein the matching matches the object in the acquired image to an object in an authored image in the database by using the contents of the acquired image in the database and the authored image themselves, rather than relying on image metadata, by using triplets of image features warped into equilateral triangles, comprising: extracting the appended information about the object that was found in the matched images from the matched authored image; sending the extracted appended information, and not the image in the image database to a client for use in locating additional information from different sources for the object in the acquired image.