Motivation : Shopping assistant. Since one item can be sold by many stores with different prices, it benefits consumers when having price reference in check, so that it reduces an amount that he/she overpays for that item. It may sound the application will "prevent" some shop owner from making profit, but it's up to the user to determine whether to make purchase or not. The best policy is being honest.
It also helps user check whether the item he/she is holding is genuine or fake, if such model really exists. Some other info is considerably useful like manufacturing year, manufacturer, version, model ...
Method:
- Input:
+ Images: item info are extracted from its shape, model(with character recognizing software )
+ Sound: item info are inputed by speech sent from user. (speech recognizing software)
- Input will be pushed and used as search keywords on some searching service such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, ...
- Output :
+ the price, or price range. It may be converted currency accordingly to user's current location. Or null if item not found.
+ Result is sent back to user as sound file, with result is spoken by the application. Or text sent to user's display such as phone, laptop, tablet, or ... glasses, watches ^^
Current limitation :
+ Should input be visible by the shop's owner ? I don't think they like it, when u know too much about their item. They can't make a huge fortune from u by that way. If not visible, how can it be ?
+ The method that receives outcome from item searching.
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