Patent ID: 8774471

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for recognizing a personal object in an image and facilitating providing a related financial service, comprising: receiving a pre-existing data structure that comprises information for a set of objects, wherein the information comprises, for each object in the set, object information describing the object and financial information for the object that comprises information from a database used by accounting or income-tax software; after receiving the data structure, receiving an image of an object associated with a user, wherein the image includes environmental features that comprise aspects of a surrounding environment where the image was captured; extracting content from the image by processing the image and the environmental features using an image-processing technique; determining whether or not the extracted content indicates that the surrounding environment is associated with the user; in response to determining that the surrounding environment is associated with the user, associating, using a computer, the extracted content with the information in the data structure, wherein associating the extracted content with the information in the data structure comprises using the object information to match the object with an object in the set of objects; and facilitating the financial service based on the information, wherein the financial service is associated with the object, and wherein facilitating the financial service comprises using at least some of the information from the database.