Empowering Consumers through Image-Based Price Comparison amongst Different E-Commerce Platform


    Inventor

    Still browse through different sellers’ page to get the best deal of the household items? Having difficulty in spelling out the name of the household item? Different sellers having different name of the household items? Worry no more. This PriceChaser is here to help. By uploading the product image, this app can search the item across several famous e-commerce platforms through web crawling. Additionally, it does not only return the seller's page but also provides a summary of comparisons among the search results. This includes the price, rating information, characteristics of products in graph or tabular form. Users need not to spend any cost on the apps but just download the application. This application is useful not just for housewives, but also for any family and students who living away from home. On the other hand, sellers can easily reach potential customers through effective advertisements targeted at users who search household products. The use of the application eases the lengthy search times for users, reducing energy waste (e.g., electricity or battery usage). This apps can also introduce the eco-friendly household products to help users make environmentally conscious choices.
  • Description of Invention

    Goh Pey Yun, FIST Multimedia University

  • Intellectual Property (IP) Status

    • Copyright Affirmed
    • TRL Status: 4

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