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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2007
Gurumurthy D Ramkumar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Raghavan Manmatha, Belchertown, MA (US);
Supratik Bhattacharyya, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gautam Bhargava, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark Ruzon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gurumurthy D Ramkumar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Raghavan Manmatha, Belchertown, MA (US);
Supratik Bhattacharyya, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gautam Bhargava, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark Ruzon, Mountain View, CA (US);
A9.Com, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Image-based searching for information on a network is provided in response to an image query sent by a user. The image query includes an image captured using a mobile communications device with a camera. The image is processed to detect any text present in the image, and any detected text can be analyzed using a process such as optical character recognition (OCR). The analyzed text is used to search for matches in at least one corresponding domain database, selected from various domain databases present in the network. Thereafter, one or more selected matches and any additional related information can be sent to the user as one or more results for the submitted image query.