Patent ID: 9147109
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06F,G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for adding business card information into a contact list, comprising: 1) capturing an image of entrant business card; recognizing character information on the image of the entrant business card; and extracting image features from the image of the entrant business card; 2) comparing the character information in the entrant business card with a character information in all prestored business cards in the contact list to obtain one or more character-matched business cards; comparing image features of the entrant business card with image features of each of the one or more character-matched business cards; and calculating a measurement value representing a degree of similarity between the image features of the entrant business card and each of the one or more character-matched business cards; 3) selecting a character-matched business card having a highest measurement value as a candidate business card; and 4) determining whether the candidate business card and the entrant business card belong to a same contact; when a result of the determining step is affirmative, indicating that the entrant business card information is present in the contact list, when the result of the determining step is negative, indicating that the entrant business card information is not in the contact list; wherein in step 2), comparing image features is to compare feature points and feature vectors corresponding to each feature point with respect to the business card images of the one or more character-matched business cards and the business card image of the entrant business card.