Patent Document ID: 9092674
Application ID: 13166933

Base Claim:
1. A method for analyzing an image obtained at a location, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, by a computer system, an image comprising text, and contextual information data associated with the image, wherein the contextual information comprises a plurality of images of the vicinity of the image comprising text, the plurality of images obtained within a predetermined time interval prior to obtaining the image comprising text; performing character recognition using said image to yield a character string; sending, to a non-GPS supplemental data module, the received contextual information data; determining, by the non-GPS supplemental data module, an approximate location of the image based on the received contextual information data; and providing an analysis of the image based at least in part on the contextual information data and the approximate location of the image, wherein the analysis comprises at least a portion of the character string.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of: performing image preparation, by the computer system, of the image for character recognition; wherein the performing-image-preparation step includes the sub-step of normalizing the portion of the image including the characters so that the characters appear as if a plane upon which they are printed is substantially normal to a direction from which the image was captured; and wherein at the performing-character-recognition step, the character recognition is performed on the image as prepared at the performing-image-preparation step.