Object information derived from object images
Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back locally to, or nearby, the device that captured the image.
1. An information retrieval system comprising:
a device connection coupled with a device configured to acquire a digital representation of a scene; and
an identification server configured to:
obtain the digital representation from the device over the device connection;
recognize an object within the scene based on the digital representation;
derive object attributes associated with the object based at least in part on the digital representation;
derive a query targeting a search engine indexing system based on the object attributes; and
cause the query to be submitted to a search engine that is configured to cause a results set from the query to be transmitted back to the device.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein digital representation comprises imagery data.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein digital representation comprises non-visible data.
4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the non-visible data comprises sounds acquired by the device.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the digital representation comprise bio-metric information.
6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the bio-metric information includes data representative of at least one of a fingerprint and an iris.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the digital representation comprise location information of the device.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the object within the scene comprises markings.
9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the object attributes are obtained at least in part from the markings.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the identification server comprises a distal server relative to the device and the device connection comprises a network connection.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the device comprises the identification server.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the identification server is further configured to obtain additional digital representations of the scene from multiple devices.
13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the identification server is further configured to identify the object within the scene from the additional digital representations.
14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the identification server is further configured to discriminate between the object and a second, different object within the scene.
15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the search engine indexing system indexes a proprietary collection.
16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the object comprises at least three dimensions of relevance.
17. The system of claim 13 , wherein the object comprises at least four dimensions of relevance.
18. The system of claim 1 , further comprising an object database of known target objects coupled with the identification server.
19. The system of claim 18 , wherein the object attributes comprise target object information related to at least one known target object obtained from the object database.
20. The system of claim 1 , wherein the results set comprises a code to cause an action to occur.
21. The system of claim 20 , wherein the action targets the device.
22. The system of claim 20 , wherein the action targets the object.
23. The system of claim 1 , wherein the digital representation comprises data obtained from at least one sensor.