Patent ID: 8194156

Claim:
An image acquisition device for acquiring images of multiple, predefined types of objects, the image acquisition device comprising: a sensing unit to: register optical information, and convert the optical information into raw image data including intensity information associated with the optical information; and a processing unit to: convert the raw image data into digital image information, identify a plurality of potential objects in the digital image information, compare each of the plurality of potential objects to information associated with the predefined types of objects to determine whether one or more of the plurality of potential objects correspond to one of the predefined types of objects, store coordinates, of one or more particular geometric shapes, as first metadata associated with the one or more particular geometric shapes, where the one or more particular geometrical shapes enclose each of the plurality of potential objects that correspond to one of the predefined types of objects, store, as second metadata, a particular object type, of the predefined types of objects, corresponding to each of the plurality of potential objects that correspond to one of the predefined types of objects, determine, in response to a query input via a user interface of the image acquisition device, that the digital image information includes one or more of the predefined types of objects based on the second metadata, and display, based on the first metadata, the digital image information including the one or more of the predefined types of objects, where each of the one or more predefined types of objects are displayed enclosed by the corresponding one of the one or more particular geometric shapes.