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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2014
A9.com, Inc., Palo Alto, 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 A. Ruzon, Mountain View, CA (US);
A9.com, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Present invention relates to a method and system for automatic searching for information on a network in response to an image query sent by a user. The image query includes an image that is captured by using a mobile communications device with a camera. The image is processed to detect the text present in it. The detected text is then recognized using an OCR. Subsequently, the text is searched for matches in the corresponding domain database, selected from the various domain databases present in the network. Thereafter, selected matches and additional related information is sent to the user.