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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2012
Francislav P. Penov, Kirkland, WA (US);
Aaron Michael Donsbach, Seattle, WA (US);
Geoffrey Scott Heller, Seattle, WA (US);
Kenneth M. Karakotsios, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Bibireata, Seattle, WA (US);
Kah Kuen Fu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard Howard Suplee, Iii, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Mountain View, CA (US);
Francislav P. Penov, Kirkland, WA (US);
Aaron Michael Donsbach, Seattle, WA (US);
Geoffrey Scott Heller, Seattle, WA (US);
Kenneth M. Karakotsios, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Bibireata, Seattle, WA (US);
Kah Kuen Fu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard Howard Suplee, III, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A user attempting to obtain information about an object can capture image information including a view of that object, and the image information can be used with a matching or identification process to provide information about that type of object to the user. In order to narrow the search space to a specific category, and thus improve the accuracy of the results and the speed at which results can be obtained, the user can be guided to capture image information with an appropriate orientation. An outline or other graphical guide can be displayed over image information captured by a computing device, in order to guide the user in capturing the object from an appropriate direction and with an appropriate scale for the type of matching and/or information used for the matching. Such an approach enables three-dimensional objects to be analyzed using conventional two-dimensional identification algorithms, among other such processes.