System and method for enabling image recognition and searching of remote content on display

US8732025B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Google LLC · US

Inventors

• Salih Burak Gokturk · Palo Alto, US
• Dan Chiao · San Francisco, US
• Jacquie Phillips · San Francisco, US
• Mark Moran · Evanston, US
• Vincent O. Vanhoucke · San Francisco, US
• Azhar Khan · San Francisco, US
• Xiaofan Lin · Palo Alto, US
• Munjal Shah · Los Altos, US
• Andrew Miller · Mountain View, US
• Navneet Dalal · Atherton, US
• Diem Vu · Mountain View, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 13, 2007
• Grant date: May 20, 2014
• Expiry date: Sep 21, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06N20/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Images are analyzed by programmatic mechanisms for assessing one or more remote web pages to retrieve content on display at remote web pages. The retrieved images may be analyzed to determine information about an object shown in a corresponding images of the content on display. At least a portion of the object shown in the corresponding image of the content on display may be made selectable and associated with the determined information. This determined information may subsequently be used, in for example, search applications.