Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Ankit Suchanti

Bharathi Shekar

Ashootosh Chand

Yash Kotak

The disclosure includes a system and method for recommending an advertising campaign based on which channels are popular. A recognition application receives captured images from user devices, the captured images including information about products, identify indexed images that match the captured images, identify metadata about the captured images including information associated with products in the captured images, determine popularity of each channel based on a number of interactions that users have had with channels during a time period based on the metadata, receive an advertisement and provide on the one or more channels the advertisement based on the popularity of each channel.

Grouping channels based on user activity

The disclosure includes a system and method for grouping users into one or more categories for delivering targeted advertisements. A media application receives a captured image from a user, identifies an indexed image matching the captured image, retrieves metadata describing the captured image responsive to identifying the indexed image, generates a user profile for the user based on the metadata describing the captured image and a history of at least one previously captured image associated with the user, identifies a product in the captured image based on the metadata describing the captured image, provides the user with information about the product, updates the user profile based on how the user interacts with the product, and categorizes the user into one or more groups based on the user profile.

Grouping users based on user profiles

The disclosure includes a system and method selecting advertisements for users based on image capturing patterns across different media. A media application receives a captured image including information about a product from a user, identifying an indexed image matching the captured image including information about the product, retrieving metadata describing the captured image including information about the product responsive to identifying the indexed image, retrieving a user profile stored for the user, identifying an advertisement from a set of advertisements based on the user profile and the metadata describing the captured image including information about the product and providing the user with the advertisement based on the user profile.

Generating enhanced advertisements based on user activity

The disclosure includes a system and method for identifying discussion groups related to a video that a user would find to be interesting. A recognition application receives a captured image from a user, identifies an indexed image that matches the captured image, identifies a timestamp for the indexed image, determines a segment in the video that encompasses the timestamp, determines whether the user is interested in the segment of the video based on the timestamp and a user profile and provides suggested discussion groups to the user that are ranked based on what the user is interested in.

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Bengaluru, India

Ankit Suchanti