NOVEL CLOUD-BASED ART INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INCORPORATING TECHNIQUES, METHODS AND DEVICES

摘要

The present invention teaches a novel mobile-enabled secure, interactive, scalable, multi-platform cloud-based system for monitoring, managing, organizing, sharing, evaluating and/or promoting unique art objects, and the like, and interconnecting members of the art world, such as artists, galleries, museums, collectors, auction houses, art fairs, institutions, and art organizations. The cloud-based portfolio management tool provides unique capabilities for collectors to be able to engage interactively with their art, in a manner that permits the fusing of such management with market history and insurance data. Features include label generation upon recognition, capturing of screens, social media communications, virtually placing recognized art on real and/or virtual walls to provide augmented reality through virtual galleries, manual and automatic sizing of art work images, creating of virtual perspectives via tilting of a device camera, smart framing of art images, use of tags/markers, using place holders upon recognition of visual tags, scaling images of art works, automatic mirroring, and providing of financial data and summaries, including automatic conversions to users' home currency.