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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2015
Rakuten Kobo, Inc., Toronto, CA;
Peter Michael Bruce Hudson, Vancouver, CA;
Marius Constantin Muja, North Vancouver, CA;
Andrew Cameron McNair, Vancouver, CA;
Sancho Juan Carlos Dean Rob Roy McCann, Vancouver, CA;
Rakuten Kobo, Inc., Toronto, CA;
Abstract
A method and system for identifying books located on a bookshelf. Photographs of the bookshelf are captured and processed to identify individual books. Processing involves segmenting the photograph into individual book spines and extracting and analyzing features of the book spines. Analysis may include database matching and/or optical character recognition. Book spines for which a match is not found are human labeled, and the label information is added to the database. User feedback is also used to update the database.
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