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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2010
William T. Laaser, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gerald B. Huff, Berkeley, CA (US);
Arien C. T. Ferrell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael J. Graves, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William T. Laaser, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gerald B. Huff, Berkeley, CA (US);
Arien C. T. Ferrell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael J. Graves, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that recognizes a personal object in an image and facilitates providing a related financial service. During operation, the system receives an image of an object associated with a user, where the image includes environmental features associated with the user. Next, the system extracts content from the image by processing the image (and the included environmental features) using an image-processing technique. The system then associates the extracted content with information in a pre-existing data structure, where the pre-existing data structure includes financial information associated with the object. Next, the system facilitates a financial service associated with the object based on the information. For example, the system may generate an insurance appraisal for the object based on the information.