SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AN IMAGE TO PROVIDE SEARCH RESULTS

Patent №

US 9,208,401

Granted

2015-12-08

Filed 2013

Owner

W.W. GRAINGER, INC.

Lab

AI components

3

vision · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13899770

A system and method uses one or more images provided to an image recognition capable search engine to obtain search results. The image recognition system may use one or more image match algorithms to create one or more possible product match sets. In the event multiple product match sets are created, the search results may be limited to product that appears in one or more of the plural possible product match sets.

VisionPlanningAI hardwareG06F 16/5854G06F 16/583G06F 18/22G06Q 30/0601G06T 3/18G06T 3/4023G06T 2200/24G06T 2207/20112+2 more

AI classification

Vision1.00
AI hardware0.97
Planning0.92
Natural language0.35
Knowledge representation0.13
Machine learning0.06
Evolutionary computation0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

W.W. GRAINGER, INC.

assignment · 304730211

Assignors

WESTPHAL, GEOFFRY A.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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