Image-capture event monitoring
First Claim
1. An image-capture event monitoring method comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving, from multiple different sources, image-capture event notifications and deriving from each notification a location parameter indicative of where an image-capture event has occurred;
(b) using said location parameters to associate image-capture events into one or more clusters; and
(c) analysing a said cluster of image-capture events in dependence on at least one further parameter of each event.
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Abstract
In order to monitor image-capture events, notifications of such events are sent to a service system. From each notification a location parameter is derived that is indicative of the location of occurrence of the corresponding event. At the service system the notified events are associated into clusters and events in a cluster are then analysed in dependence on at least one further parameter of each event. This further parameter is, for example, the time of occurrence of the corresponding event; in this case, it is possible to determine the existence of a currently-happening attraction or when a regularly-occurring attraction is next to happen. In another embodiment, the further parameter is the direction of image capture for the event and in this case it is possible to determine the likely subject of image-capture events of a cluster.
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64 Claims
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1. An image-capture event monitoring method comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving, from multiple different sources, image-capture event notifications and deriving from each notification a location parameter indicative of where an image-capture event has occurred;
(b) using said location parameters to associate image-capture events into one or more clusters; and
(c) analysing a said cluster of image-capture events in dependence on at least one further parameter of each event. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A service system for monitoring image-capture events, the system comprising:
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an input interface for receiving, from multiple different sources, image-capture event notifications and for deriving from each notification a location parameter indicative of where an image-capture event has occurred;
a data store for storing data derived from said event notifications;
a first processing arrangement for using said location parameters to associate image-capture events into one or more clusters; and
a second processing arrangement for analysing a said cluster of image-capture events in dependence on at least one further parameter of each event. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
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