Patent Document ID: 9342741
Application ID: 14588147

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: capturing an image of a document using a camera of a mobile device; classifying the image as an image of a financial document, the classifying further comprising: generating a first representation of the image, the first representation being characterized by a reduced resolution; generating a first feature vector based on the first representation; comparing the first feature vector to a plurality of reference feature matrices; and classifying an object depicted in the image as a member of a particular object class based at least in part on the comparing; determine one or more object features of the object based at least in part on the particular object class; performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the image of the financial document; extracting an identifier of the financial document from the image based at least in part on the OCR; associating the image of the financial document with metadata descriptive of one or more of the financial document and financial information relating to the financial document; and storing the image of the financial document and the associated metadata to a memory of the mobile device.

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Claim 11:
11. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the classifying comprises generating a feature vector representative of characteristics of the image of the financial document, the characteristics comprising one or more of: a minimum brightness in one or more color channels at a particular location; a maximum brightness in one or more color channels at a particular location; an average brightness in one or more color channels at a particular location; a presence of a particular reference feature at a particular location of the financial document; dimensions of the financial document; an aspect ratio of the financial document; a color profile of the financial document; a pixel density of the financial document in one or more color channels; and a black pixel density of the financial document.