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I guess you could use OCR and object detection to identify books from their spines and link to Google Books or Goodreads.
by EveYoung 5y ago
I guess you could use OCR and object detection to identify books from their spines and link to Google Books or Goodreads.
- webmaven 5y ago> I guess you could use OCR and object detection to identify books from their spines and link to Google Books or Goodreads. Google has a patent on doing just that: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150371085A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150371085A1/en
- cocoafleck 5y agoMy gut tells me that that patent falls afoul of the "with a computer" problem (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/supreme-court-smashes-do-it-on-a-computer-patents-in-9-0-opinion/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/supreme-court-sm...). Replace computer with human and they sound ridiculous.
- hellbannedguy 5y agoMy idea is a bit different. We might be able to get our own patent? Maybe? If anyone wants to pay for the patent, I'd be willing to split any future revenue 50/50. Could you take the idea, and do it yourself--yes. I do need something in my life I put energy into though yes! You might be helping out a disenfranchised/poor developer? I reside in the Bay Area. My email is dandunphy@comcast.net (On another note, I have felt for awhile Patents, and Trademarks, should be tied to income, and number of patents applied for. A poor person, like myself, pays just as much as Google for a patent. Crazy? I would like to see patent fees on a graduated scale. Companies that spit out patents daily would be charged much more for every patent. For instance, Google's first patent would be $1000. After 10 the price is 1 million per patent. After 20 the price per patent is 100 million.)