Patent ID: 8509475

Claim:
A method for identifying an object, comprising: receiving, by an evaluation unit, at least one electronic image of an object to be identified and a reference object, wherein the reference object is identifiable based on an identifier attached to a surface of the reference object and characteristic data of the reference object including at least one linear measurement; automatically identifying, by the evaluation unit, the imaged reference object independent of a scale of the imaged reference object; using characteristic data of the identified reference object stored in a second database to identify a scale of the received at least one electronic image; deriving, by the evaluation unit, characteristic data of the imaged object using the identified scale of the received at least one electronic image; correlating, by the evaluation unit using the derived characteristic data of the imaged object, the received at least one electronic image to electronic images of the object to be identified stored in a first database, of at least of a form-identical stored in the first database or of a form-analogous object stored in the first database; and outputting, by the evaluation unit, data stored in the first database for the at least one image that has been recognized as being a match based on the correlation, wherein the evaluation unit makes a pre-selection based on the imaged reference object.