Patent ID: 8239262

Claim:
A kiosk for analysis of a mobile phone and financial remuneration to a user for submission of the mobile phone, the kiosk comprising: a housing having an inspection area for placement of a mobile phone therein; a user interface on the housing for the user to input information; at least one machine vision camera focused on a field of view within the inspection area of the housing; a processor within the housing; wherein the processor is in electrical communication with the at least one machine vision camera to receive an image of the portion of the mobile phone and an image of the display screen of the mobile phone, the processor configured to utilize visual inspection and recognition software to determine external dimensions of the mobile phone to determine a subset of possible mobile phones from a master database of mobile phones stored in a memory, and the processor utilizing a plurality of secondary features of the mobile phone selected from the group of a placement of a display screen, a size of a display screen, a placement of a keyboard, a size of a keyboard, a plurality of buttons, and a placement of ports, wherein the processor determines an exact make and model of the mobile phone; wherein the kiosk is configured to bin a plurality of mobile phones according to parameters comprising vendor/model, condition, value, visual quality, physical damage, water damage, locked or unlocked, carrier compatibility, frequency of phone, or type of cellular standard supported.