Patents by Inventor Andrew Cameron MCNAIR

Andrew Cameron MCNAIR has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system for identifying books on a bookshelf
    Patent number: 9977955
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Rakuten Kobo, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Michael Bruce Hudson, Marius Constantin Muja, Andrew Cameron McNair, Sancho Juan Carlos Dean Rob Roy McCann
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING BOOKS ON A BOOKSHELF
    Publication number: 20150371085
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Peter Michael Bruce HUDSON, Marius Constantin MUJA, Andrew Cameron MCNAIR, Sancho Juan Carlos Dean Rob Roy MCCANN