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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2014
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeffrey Paul Baxter, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Richard The, New York, NY (US);
Kjell Fredrik Heghammar, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are embodiments of an image-recognition based game. In one aspect, a method involves (1) receiving by a computing device an input to initiate a game application, (2) causing the game application to initiate a game, and (3) during gameplay of the game: (a) causing a graphical display of the computing device to display a silhouette object that includes at least a shape of the silhouette object, (b) receiving by the computing device image data of an environment that includes a real-world object, (c) analyzing the image data to determine one or more similarity measures that indicate similarity between the real-world object and the silhouette object, where one of the similarity measures indicates similarity between a shape of the real-world object and the shape of the silhouette object, and (d) causing the graphical display to display a match indication based on the one or more similarity measures.