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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:
Nov. 11, 2008

Filed:

Feb. 09, 2005
Applicant:

Yoshimitsu Kudoh, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventor:

Yoshimitsu Kudoh, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A digital pictorial book system for searching for and providing to a user with an explanation of an object captured by an image capturing module includes an image capturing module for taking an image; a main object selecting module for selecting a main object out of the image; a feature extracting module for extracting a feature of the main object; an image database selecting module for selecting an image database which stores a feature of a kind extracted by the feature extracting module out of a plurality of image databases which store explanations of objects corresponded to a plurality kinds of different features of the objects; and an explanation searching module for searching for the explanation of the main object in the selected image database.


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