“Seeking information about something seen, a user takes a photo of the object and sends the photo, via e-mail or Multimedia Messaging Service, to a Web-based server, which searches an image database for matches. The server then delivers database informationwhether it be a Web page featuring the object in the photo or information associated with the objectto the user, who can act on the information received: read a menu, enter a gallery, book a hotel room, make a purchase.”
Menglei Jia, Xin Fan, Xing Xie, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Photo-to-Search: Using Camera Phones to Inquire of the Surrounding World, demo, The 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM’06), Nara, Japan, May, 2006 (text not yet available).
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