Patent Document ID: 9230172
Application ID: 14692234
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A device for identifying and displaying additional information relating to an item of interest, the device comprising a processor for executing one or more modules comprising: an image acquisition module for acquiring a first query image including the item of interest; a feature descriptor generation module for extracting a plurality of first query image feature descriptors associated with the first query image; a fingerprint generation module for: generating a first query fingerprint based on the extracted first query image feature descriptors; and transmitting the first query fingerprint to a server, wherein the first query fingerprint enables the server to perform, based on the first query fingerprint, a similarity search in a database storing a plurality of reference image feature descriptors and to acquire one or more candidate images associated with at least one of the reference image feature descriptors retrieved from the database by mapping the query feature descriptors to addresses, or adjacent addresses, to which reference image feature descriptors are most frequently mapped; and an image matching module for determining whether the first query image matches with at least one of the one or more candidate images; wherein the determination at the image matching module enables acquisition of additional information associated with at least one of the one or more candidate images for displaying as additional information relating to the at least one item of interest to the user.