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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2011
Xiping Luo, Shanghai, CN;
Xiping Luo, Shanghai, CN;
INTSIG INFORMATION CO., LTD., Shanghai, CN;
Abstract
Provided in the present invention is a method for determining if a business card about to be added has been present in a contact list, and the method is applicable in an electronic device having a contact list used for storing business card information of contacts. The method comprises: the electronic device acquiring a business card image of the business card about to be added, then retrieving the business card image of each prestored business card from the contact list on the basis of character information on the business card image, performing an image feature matching respectively with the business card about to be added, and selecting a candidate business card on the basis of image feature similarity; determining if the candidate business card and the business card about to be added belong to a same user; if the answer is yes, then displaying that the business card about to be added has been present in the contact list, and if the answer is no, then displaying that the business card about to be added has not been present in the contact list yet. This is used for automatic determination of whether the recognized business card has already been present in the contact list by combining character recognition result and image feature, thus solving the common problem in the prior art of user adding redundant entry to the contact list.