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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Vijay Ekambaram, Chennai, IN;

Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Bangalore, IN;

Anirban Laha, Chinsurah, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 16/583 (2019.01); G06K 9/72 (2006.01); G06F 16/432 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00664 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 16/434 (2019.01); G06F 16/583 (2019.01); G06F 16/5838 (2019.01); G06K 9/72 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing at least one image of an object that is of interest to a user; identifying and capturing an environmental context of the object, wherein the environmental context (i) identifies a plurality of features of the environment surrounding the object, and (ii) comprises context captured from different modalities; storing the at least one image and the environmental context of the object, wherein the storing comprises indexing the object within the remote storage location using the identified features of the environment; receiving a request for the at least one image of the object; accessing the remote storage location and retrieving the at least one image of the object, wherein the retrieving comprises (i) searching for the at least one of the plurality of features and (ii) retrieving the at least one image of an object; and displaying the at least one image.


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