FACILITATING IDENTIFICATION OF AN OBJECT RECORDED IN DIGITAL CONTENT RECORDS
First Claim
1. A method implemented at least in part by a data processing system, the method for identifying digital content records from a plurality of digital content records and comprising the steps of:
- accessing information defining a space-time line for an object, the space-time line representing changes in the object'"'"'s position in space over time;
accessing information sets, each set defining a captured space-time region associated with one of the plurality of digital content records, each captured space-time region representing a region of space captured by its associated digital content record at a particular time;
identifying digital content records from the plurality based at least upon identified intersections of the object'"'"'s space-time line and the captured space-time regions; and
storing results of the identifying step in a processor-accessible memory system.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention facilitate identification of one or more objects in digital content records at least by knowing or estimating what region of space-time was captured by the digital content records and where the objects were located at various points in time. An object'"'"'s location versus time is referred to herein as a space-time line. Any digital content record whose captured space-time region intersects with a particular object'"'"'s space-time line is identified as having a possibility of having recorded the particular object.
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37 Claims
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1. A method implemented at least in part by a data processing system, the method for identifying digital content records from a plurality of digital content records and comprising the steps of:
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accessing information defining a space-time line for an object, the space-time line representing changes in the object'"'"'s position in space over time; accessing information sets, each set defining a captured space-time region associated with one of the plurality of digital content records, each captured space-time region representing a region of space captured by its associated digital content record at a particular time; identifying digital content records from the plurality based at least upon identified intersections of the object'"'"'s space-time line and the captured space-time regions; and storing results of the identifying step in a processor-accessible memory system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13)
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17. A method implemented at least in part by a data processing system, the method for facilitating identification of an object in digital content records and comprising the steps of:
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identifying first information indicating a first location of the object at a first particular time; identifying second information indicating a second location of the object at a second particular time different than the first particular time; generating a space-time line for the object based at least upon the first information and the second information, the space-time line representing changes in the object'"'"'s position in space over time; storing the space-time line in a processor-accessible memory system; and making the space-time line available to a data processing system to facilitate identification of the object in digital content records. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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30. A method implemented at least in part by a data processing system, the method for facilitating identification of an object in a digital content record and comprising the steps of:
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identifying first information indicating a location of capture, a direction of capture, and a time of capture associated with the digital content record; generating a captured space-time region associated with the digital content record based at least upon the first information, the captured space-time region representing a region of space captured by the digital content record at a particular time; storing the captured space-time region in a processor-accessible memory system; and making the captured space-time region available to a data processing system to facilitate identification of an object in the digital content record. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 35)
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