Internet and database searching with handheld devices
    122.
    发明授权
    Internet and database searching with handheld devices 有权
    使用手持设备进行互联网和数据库搜索

    公开(公告)号:US09058388B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-06-16

    申请号:US12211620

    申请日:2008-09-16

    IPC分类号: G06F7/00 G06F17/30

    摘要: The presently claimed invention relates to network searching and handheld devices. One claim recites a method including: from a first wireless device, wirelessly communicating with a second wireless device to determine whether the second wireless device has performed an internet or database search; receiving, at the first wireless device, information from the second wireless device regarding the internet or database search, if the information satisfies predetermined criteria on the first wireless device, requesting from the second wireless device at least a subset of results obtained from the internet or database search. Another claim recites: a method of searching comprising: receiving search criteria in a first, handheld mobile device; upon sensing a second, handheld mobile device by the first, handheld mobile device, automatically and wirelessly querying the second, handheld mobile device to determine whether the second, handheld mobile device has any content stored thereon corresponding to the search criteria; and receiving content corresponding to the search criteria from the second, handheld mobile device. Of course, other claims and combinations are also provided.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及网络搜索和手持设备。 一个权利要求描述了一种方法,包括:从第一无线设备与第二无线设备进行无线通信,以确定所述第二无线设备是否已经执行了互联网或数据库搜索; 在所述第一无线设备处接收来自所述第二无线设备的关于因特网或数据库搜索的信息,如果所述信息满足所述第一无线设备上的预定标准,则从所述第二无线设备至少从因特网获得的结果子集 数据库搜索。 另一个权利要求说明:一种搜索方法,包括:在第一手持移动设备中接收搜索条件; 在由第一手持式移动设备感测到第二手持式移动设备时,自动和无线地查询第二手持移动设备,以确定第二手持移动设备是否具有与搜索标准对应的任何存储的内容; 以及从所述第二手持移动设备接收与所述搜索准则对应的内容。 当然,也提供了其他权利要求和组合。

    Methods and systems for image or audio recognition processing
    125.
    发明授权
    Methods and systems for image or audio recognition processing 有权
    用于图像或音频识别处理的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US08768313B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-07-01

    申请号:US12855996

    申请日:2010-08-13

    申请人: Tony F. Rodriguez

    发明人: Tony F. Rodriguez

    摘要: Many of the detailed technologies are useful in enabling a smart phone to respond to a user's environment, e.g., so it can serve as an intuitive hearing and seeing device. A few of the detailed arrangements involve optimizing division of shared processing tasks between the phone and remote devices; using a phone GPU for exhaustive speculative execution and machine vision purposes (including facial recognition); novel device architectures involving abstraction layers that facilitate substitution of different local and remote services; interactions with private networks as they relate to audio/image processing; adapting the orders in which operations are executed, and the types of data that are exchanged with remote servers, in accordance with current context; reconfiguring networks based on sensed social affiliations among users and in accordance with predictive models of user behavior; etc. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

    摘要翻译: 许多详细的技术在使智能手机能够响应用户的环境方面是有用的,例如,因此它可以用作直观的听觉和观看设备。 一些详细的安排涉及优化电话和远程设备之间共享处理任务的划分; 使用手机GPU进行详尽的投机执行和机器视觉目的(包括面部识别); 涉及抽象层的新型设备架构,有助于替代不同的本地和远程服务; 与私人网络的相互作用与音频/图像处理有关; 根据当前情况调整执行操作的顺序以及与远程服务器交换的数据类型; 根据用户之间感知的社会关系重新配置网络,并根据用户行为的预测模型; 还详细介绍了各种各样的其他功能和布置。

    Fast signal detection and distributed computing in portable computing devices
    126.
    发明授权
    Fast signal detection and distributed computing in portable computing devices 有权
    便携式计算设备中的快速信号检测和分布式计算

    公开(公告)号:US08694049B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-04-08

    申请号:US11198004

    申请日:2005-08-05

    IPC分类号: H04M1/00 G06F15/16 G06K9/00

    摘要: This disclosure describes a distributed reader architecture for a mobile computing device such as cellular telephone handset. This architecture includes a reader library that reads device capabilities and business model parameters in the device, and in response, for selects an appropriate configuration of reader modules for identifying a content item. The reader modules each perform a function used in identifying a content item. The modules are selected so that the resources available on the device and in remote devices are used optimally, depending on available computing resources on the device and network bandwidth. One example of a reader module is a fast watermark detection module that quickly detects the presence of a watermark, enabling resources to be focused on portions of content that are most likely going to lead to successful content identification. A watermark signal structure for fast watermark detection is comprised of a dense array of impulse functions in a form of a circle in a Fourier magnitude domain, and the impulse functions having pseudorandom phase. Alternative structures are possible.

    摘要翻译: 本公开描述了用于诸如蜂窝电话手机的移动计算设备的分布式读取器架构。 该架构包括阅读器库,其读取设备中的设备能力和业务模型参数,并且作为响应,用于选择用于识别内容项目的读取器模块的适当配置。 读取器模块各自执行用于识别内容项目的功能。 选择这些模块,以便根据设备上可用的计算资源和网络带宽,最佳地使用设备和远程设备上可用的资源。 读取器模块的一个示例是快速检测水印的存在的快速水印检测模块,使资源能够集中在最有可能导致成功的内容识别的内容的部分上。 用于快速水印检测的水印信号结构由傅里叶级数域中的圆形脉冲函数的密集阵列组成,脉冲函数具有伪随机相位。 替代结构是可能的。

    Methods and systems for determining image processing operations relevant to particular imagery
    127.
    发明授权
    Methods and systems for determining image processing operations relevant to particular imagery 有权
    用于确定与特定图像相关的图像处理操作的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US08660355B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-02-25

    申请号:US12821974

    申请日:2010-06-23

    摘要: Image data, such as from a mobile phone camera, is analyzed to determine a colorfulness metric (e.g., saturation) or a contrast metric (e.g., Weber contrast). This metric is then used in deciding which of, or in which order, plural different image recognition processes should be invoked in order to present responsive information to a user. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

    摘要翻译: 分析诸如来自移动电话摄像机的图像数据以确定色彩度量(例如,饱和度)或对比度量度(例如韦伯对比度)。 然后,该度量被用于决定应该调用多个不同的图像识别过程中的哪个或哪个顺序,以向用户呈现响应信息。 还详细介绍了许多其他功能和安排。

    IMAGE RELATED METHODS AND SYSTEMS
    129.
    发明申请
    IMAGE RELATED METHODS AND SYSTEMS 有权
    图像相关方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20120300974A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-11-29

    申请号:US13149334

    申请日:2011-05-31

    申请人: Tony F. Rodriguez

    发明人: Tony F. Rodriguez

    IPC分类号: G06K9/36

    摘要: Digital watermark encoding—and associated registry transactions—are made transparent to consumers—performed as built-in features of common image processing operations, such as taking a picture, or printing a picture. In one arrangement, a user interacts with buttons and other controls of a graphical user interface on the touchscreen of a printer to author specific experiences that should be triggered by a hardcopy image—such as launching a related video, playing a recorded audio clip, displaying other images in a story narrative to which the hardcopy image relates, etc. The printer then attends to interactions with network infrastructure components needed to give the hardcopy print the user-desired functionality. In another arrangement, the content experience triggered by a printed image is authored automatically, e.g., by reference to data mined from the image's online context (e.g., Facebook photo album). A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

    摘要翻译: 数字水印编码和关联的注册表事务对于消费者来说是透明的,作为常见图像处理操作的内置特征,例如拍摄照片或打印图片。 在一种布置中,用户与打印机的触摸屏上的图形用户界面的按钮和其他控件进行交互,以创作应该由硬拷贝图像触发的特定体验,例如启动相关视频,播放录制的音频剪辑,显示 与硬拷贝影像相关的故事叙述中的其他图像等。然后,打印机参与与硬拷贝打印所需的功能所需的网络基础架构组件的交互。 在另一种布置中,例如通过引用从图像的在线上下文(例如,Facebook相册)中挖掘的数据,自动创作由打印图像触发的内容体验。 还详细介绍了各种各样的其他功能和安排。

    Smartphone-Based Methods and Systems
    130.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20120284339A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-11-08

    申请号:US13552265

    申请日:2012-07-18

    申请人: Tony F. Rodriguez

    发明人: Tony F. Rodriguez

    IPC分类号: G06F15/16 G06K9/62

    摘要: Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.