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AUTOMATED PROCESSES USING
VISUALLY-BASED CHILDREN’S COGNITIVE
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ABSTRACT
(76) Inventors:
Hsia-Yen Tseng, San Diego, CA
(US); HaW-minn Lu, San Diego,
CA (Us)
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12/899,552
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(22) Filed:
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human challenge, for example, selecting one object in a group
of object that is different, selecting an object from a group of
objects Which is most similar to a given object, selecting tWo
Visually based children’s cognitive tests can be used as a
human challenge or Turing test to verify that a human and not
an automated process is operating a particular system, such as
purchasing tickets, downloading ?les, accessing a database,
different visually oriented cognitive tests can be used as a
Related US. Application Data
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Provisional application No. 61/249,567, ?led on Oct.
7, 2009.
objects in a group of objects that are most similar, ?nding a
given object in a scene, counting the number of instances of
an object in a scheme and object based analogies.
Which one of these is not like the others?
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