| ARIEL INVENTIONS, LLC Patent applications |
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| 20120128240 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING PRODUCT INFORMATION USING PRODUCT IMAGES - A method and system for determining product information from a logo are disclosed. In one embodiment, an image of a logo may be captured by a portable image capture device. The captured image may be analyzed to recognize the logo. The product may then be identified based on the recognized logo. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120113273 | System, Method, and Devices for Searching for a Digital Image over a Communication Network - Systems, devices, and methods for searching using at least one digital image over a communication network are disclosed. Embodiments include a remote computer server receiving a digital image from a digital capturing device and the remote computer server processing the digital image to provide digital image processing information. Further, the remote computer server determines a list of search results based on the digital image and the digital image processing information and transmits the list of search results to the digital capture device. The list of search results includes links to websites, one or more search result images, and image identification information. In addition, a search engine software application implemented by the remote computer server receives the digital image and determines the list of search results. An image processing device and/or computer program identifies one or more objects within the digital image that may is be used in a search. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120109508 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROUTE NAVIGATION BASED ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for selecting a preferred route to a destination location. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, multiple routes to the destination location are determined. For each route of the multiple routes, an estimated amount of energy needed to travel to the destination location is calculated. A preferred route from the multiple routes is selected, the preferred route being the route with a lowest estimated amount of energy needed to travel to the destination location. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120101649 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ARTICLE OF COMMERCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION USING IDENTIFICATION INDICIA - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and apparatus for obtaining energy consumption data associated with an article of commerce. Identification indicia associated with an article of commerce is received. The identification indicia is transmitted and, in response to transmitting the identification indicia, energy consumption data is received and displayed. The energy consumption data is associated with the article of commerce. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120079051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF STORING AND RETRIEVING ASSOCIATED INFORMATION WITH A DIGITAL IMAGE - A method and apparatus for associating metadata with an image are disclosed. The metadata associated with the image includes communication options for communicating with a party associated with the image. The communication options may include email, Short Message Service (SMS), blog, social media, video conference, Internet chat, etc. The communication options are displayed in response to selection of the image. Communication with the party associated with the image is initiated using at least one of the communication options. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078728 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS OF SUBSIDIZING THE COST OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES BY ALLOWING THE DEVICE MANUFACTURER TO CONTROL DIGITAL ADVERTISING ON THE DEVICE - Systems, methods and devices for reducing a price of an electronic device by allowing a device manufacturer to control digital advertising on the electronic device are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and devices may include presenting content on a display, the content having an embedded commercial. Further, embodiments may include detecting the embedded commercial with a screening engine and a screening circuit and providing the screening engine and screening circuit with device advertisement (AD) content by the AD content engine. Additional embodiments may include replacing the embedded commercial with the device AD content by the screening engine and screening circuit. Moreover, selecting the device AD is based on user information by the AD content engine as well as tracking the viewing of the AD content by a tracking module. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078689 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS OF SUBSIDIZING THE COST OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES BY ALLOWING THE DEVICE MANUFACTURER TO CONTROL DIGITAL ADVERTISING ON THE DEVICE - Systems, methods and devices for reducing a price of an electronic device by allowing a device manufacturer to control digital advertising on the electronic device are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and devices may include presenting content on a display, the content having an embedded commercial. Further, embodiments may include detecting the embedded commercial with a screening engine and a screening circuit and providing the screening engine and screening circuit with device advertisement (AD) content by the AD content engine. Additional embodiments may include replacing the embedded commercial with the device AD content by the screening engine and screening circuit. Moreover, selecting the device AD is based on user information by the AD content engine as well as tracking the viewing of the AD content by a tracking module. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20110309950 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC CONDITION DETECTION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for vehicle speed acquisition and citation. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, multiple different imaging systems can be placed individually at different locations along a route of travel, such as a highway, byway or waterway. Images of different vehicles can be captured at each of the locations and different ones of the different vehicles can be image-recognized. A time of travel between pairs of the locations can be determined for selected ones of the different vehicles in order to compute a rate of travel for the selected ones of the different vehicles. A citation signal is generated when a speed of a vehicle exceeds a predetermined speed limit such that the vehicle owner may be automatically cited for speeding. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110281577 | ENABLING SOCIAL INTERACTIVE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A computer-implemented system and method for enabling social interactive wireless communication between at least two mobile devices is presented. In particular, the system and method comprises affiliating and/or synchronizing a first mobile device and a second mobile device with an interactive social network. Further, the present invention comprises associating at least one first social interactive pairing criterion with the first mobile device, and associating at least one second social interactive pairing criterion with a second mobile device. Upon disposition of the first and second mobile devices in a physical and/or geographic proximity to one another, the present invention further comprises determining whether the first and second social interactive pairing criterion at least partially coincide with one another, and establishing a communication channel between the first and second mobile devices for communication therebetween. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110032120 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFRACTION DETECTION BASED ON VEHICLE TRAFFIC FLOW DATA - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for vehicle speed acquisition and citation. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, multiple different imaging systems can be placed individually at different locations along a route of travel, such as a highway, by way or waterway. Images of different vehicles can be captured at each of the locations and different ones of the different vehicles can be image-recognized. A time of travel between pairs of the locations can be determined for selected ones of the different vehicles in order to compute a rate of travel for the selected ones of the different vehicles. A citation signal is generated when a speed of a vehicle exceeds a predetermined speed limit such that the vehicle owner may be automatically cited for speeding. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110016378 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING AND MARKING HYPERIMAGES WHEN DISPLAYED - A method and apparatus for processing a digital image are disclosed. Information, materials and metadata may be associated with the image, thereby forming a HyperImage™. A method includes evaluating metadata associated with an image, determining that the image is a HyperImage™, and indicating to a user that the image is a HyperImage™. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110010631 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF STORING AND RETRIEVING ASSOCIATED INFORMATION WITH A DIGITAL IMAGE - A method and apparatus for processing metadata of an image are disclosed. The metadata is associated with the image and an applet views the metadata in response to selection of the image. The metadata may include links to websites, audio files, video files, and text files, as well as image capture information including GPS location, time and date of capture, camera settings, etc. In response to selection of the image, or in response to arriving at a website pointed to by a URL in the metadata, a list of information materials associated with the image may be displayed. One or more of the information materials may be automatically activated. | 01-13-2011 |
