Sensor-based mobile search, related methods and systems

摘要: A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user's environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of scene viewed by phone's camera. The image processing tasks applied can be selected among various alternatives reference resource costs, constraints, information (e.g., audio), task substitutability, etc. apply more less resources an depending on how successfully is proceeding, based apparent interest in task. some arrangements, data may referred cloud for analysis, gleaning. Cognition, identification appropriate device response(s), aided collateral information, such as context. great number features arrangements are also detailed.