Personal navigation device and related method of adding tags to photos according to content of the photos and geographical information of where photos were taken
First Claim
1. A method of automatically adding tags to photos based on content of the photos and geographical information, the method comprising:
- taking a photo with a camera of a personal navigation device;
generating a geographical tag for the photo with the personal navigation device and attaching the geographical tag to the photo to generate a geotagged photo;
transferring the geotagged photo to an optical character recognition (OCR) server;
performing OCR on the geotagged photo with the OCR server and generating image description tags on the OCR server from a text recognized in the geotagged photo; and
utilizing the personal navigation device to select tags from the image description tags generated by the OCR server and attach the selected tags to the geotagged photo.
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Abstract
A method of automatically adding tags to photos based on content of the photos and geographical information about where the photo was taken includes taking a photo with a camera of a personal navigation device, generating a geographical tag for the photo with the personal navigation device and attaching the geographical tag to the photo to generate a geotagged photo, transferring the geotagged photo to an optical character recognition (OCR) server, performing OCR on the geotagged photo with the OCR server and generating image description tags from text recognized in the geotagged photo, attaching selected tags to the geotagged photo, the selected tags being selected from the generated image description tags, and uploading the geotagged photo along with the attached selected tags to a photo sharing server, photos on the server being searchable by geographical tags or selected tags associated with the photos.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of automatically adding tags to photos based on content of the photos and geographical information, the method comprising:
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taking a photo with a camera of a personal navigation device; generating a geographical tag for the photo with the personal navigation device and attaching the geographical tag to the photo to generate a geotagged photo; transferring the geotagged photo to an optical character recognition (OCR) server; performing OCR on the geotagged photo with the OCR server and generating image description tags on the OCR server from a text recognized in the geotagged photo; and utilizing the personal navigation device to select tags from the image description tags generated by the OCR server and attach the selected tags to the geotagged photo. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A personal navigation device for automatically adding tags to photos based on content of the photos and geographical information, the personal navigation device comprising:
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a camera for creating photos, generating a geographical tag for the photo, and attaching the geographical tag to the photo to generate a geotagged photo; a communication port for transmitting the geotagged photo to an optical character recognition (OCR) server and receiving image description tags generated by the OCR server resulting from the OCR server performing OCR on the geotagged photo to generate the image description tags from a text recognized in the geotagged photo; and a user interface for selecting tags from the image description tags generated by the OCR server and attach the selected tags to the geotagged photo. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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