Patent Document ID: 9916520
Application ID: 14567107
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A food recognition assistant embodied in one or more non-transitory machine accessible storage media of a computing system, the food recognition assistant comprising instructions executable by one or more processors to cause the computing system to: receive a digital image; obtain context data indicative of the context in which the digital image was captured; detect one or more regions of the image that are visually salient in comparison to other regions of the image by algorithmically recognizing a plurality of different features present in the image; identify a plurality of characteristics of the one or more salient regions, including at least two of: color, texture, size and shape; compare the context data to data indicative of known relationships between foods and contextual cues; and identify a food depicted in the one or more salient regions based on the salient region characteristics and the context data.