Earlier this year, Technical.ly checked in with Center City-based Slyce, makers of visual search software, as it was piloting a new product: a part-finder kiosk meant for retailers like Home Depot.

But the Philly tech company was also quietly working on a bigger project — namely, acquiring Spain-based Catchoom, which specializes in cloud and on-device image recognition and augmented reality on print, logos, art and packaged goods.

And now, Slyce CEO Ted Mann said, the companies are merging with Austria-based Humai, which specializes in mobile computer vision augmented reality, to create a new company focused on part recognition called Partium.

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