Digital Field Marking Kit For Bird Identification

• US 20110066952A1
• Filed: 09/16/2010
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Heather Kinch Studio, LLC
• Original Assignee: Heather Kinch Studio, LLC
• Inventors: Kinch, Heather Christine
• Application Number:
  US12/884,062
• Publication Number:
  US 20110066952A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/744
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 29/00 Other apparatus for animal husbandry
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 45/00 Other aviculture appliances, e.g. devices for determining whether a bird is about to lay
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium use computer systems for bird identification. In one aspect, a method includes presenting, on a mobile device, selectable templates showing bird body shapes; receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating colors for predefined regions of a bird body shown in a selected template of the multiple selectable templates, the indicated colors corresponding to an observed bird; and storing information representing the indicated colors for the predefined regions of the bird body for later identification of the observed bird. In another aspect, a system includes: one or more computers to provide one or more services; a network coupled with the one or more computers; and a mobile computing device configured to connect to the network and the one or more computers by wireless communication; where the mobile computing device is programmed to perform operations as described herein.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting, on a mobile device, selectable templates showing bird body shapes;

receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating colors for predefined regions of a bird body shown in a selected template of the multiple selectable templates, the indicated colors corresponding to an observed bird; and

storing information representing the indicated colors for the predefined regions of the bird body for later identification of the observed bird.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating a bird type from among multiple bird types;

identifying the selectable templates for the presenting based on the input indicating the bird type;

receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating the selected template of the multiple selectable templates; and

receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating one or more sub-templates of the selected template to finalize a configuration of the selected template for use in receiving the input indicating the colors for the predefined regions.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein receiving the input indicating the bird type comprises receiving the input indicating the bird type from among the multiple bird types comprising (i) songbirds, (ii) backyard birds, (iii) waterfowl, (iv) birds of prey, (v) shorebirds and marsh birds, (vi) wading birds, (vii) seabirds, and (viii) game birds.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein receiving the input indicating the selected template comprises receiving input indicating a bird head shape template, and wherein receiving the input indicating the one or more sub-templates comprises receiving input indicating a bill shape sub-template and a tail shape sub-template.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the input indicating the colors for the predefined regions comprises receiving, on a touch screen of the mobile device, a drag-and-drop between a location on a color pallet and any location in a predefined region corresponding to an anatomical region of the observed bird, the method comprising:

displaying a color, corresponding to the location on the color pallet, snapping to the predefined region, corresponding to the anatomical region of the observed bird.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving input indicating a gradient for a previously applied color in a first predefined region of the selected template; and

receiving input indicating an opacity for a previously applied color in a second predefined region of the selected template.

7. The method of claim 6, comprising:

receiving input indicating an erasure of previously applied colors, where the erasure crosses a boundary between two predefined regions of the selected template; and

receiving input to apply one or more patterns to the selected template, where the one or more patterns cross the boundary between the two predefined regions of the selected template.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing comprises storing date, time and location on Earth data obtained from the mobile device in a file along with the information representing the indicated colors, the method comprising:

sending the file to a bird species database system for identification of the observed bird.

9. A computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program comprising instructions that cause data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

presenting, on a mobile device, selectable templates showing bird body shapes;

receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating colors for predefined regions of a bird body shown in a selected template of the multiple selectable templates, the indicated colors corresponding to an observed bird; and

storing information representing the indicated colors for the predefined regions of the bird body for later identification of the observed bird.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, the operations comprising:

receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating a bird type from among multiple bird types;

identifying the selectable templates for the presenting based on the input indicating the bird type;

receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating the selected template of the multiple selectable templates; and

receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating one or more sub-templates of the selected template to finalize a configuration of the selected template for use in receiving the input indicating the colors for the predefined regions.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein receiving the input indicating the bird type comprises receiving the input indication the bird type from among the multiple bird types comprising (i) songbirds, (ii) backyard birds, (iii) waterfowl, (iv) birds of prey, (v) shorebirds and marsh birds, (vi) wading birds, (vii) seabirds, and (viii) game birds.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein receiving the input indicating the selected template comprises receiving input indicating a bird head shape template, and wherein receiving the input indicating the one or more sub-templates comprises receiving input indicating a bill shape sub-template and a tail shape sub-template.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein receiving the input indicating the colors for the predefined regions comprises receiving, on a touch screen of the mobile device, a drag-and-drop between a location on a color pallet and any location in a predefined region corresponding to an anatomical region of the observed bird, the operations comprising:

displaying a color, corresponding to the location on the color pallet, snapping to the predefined region, corresponding to the anatomical region of the observed bird.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, the operations comprising:

receiving input indicating a gradient for a previously applied color in a first predefined region of the selected template; and

receiving input indicating an opacity for a previously applied color in a second predefined region of the selected template.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, the operations comprising:

receiving input indicating an erasure of previously applied colors, where the erasure crosses a boundary between two predefined regions of the selected template; and

receiving input to apply one or more patterns to the selected template, where the one or more patterns cross the boundary between the two predefined regions of the selected template.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the storing comprises storing date, time and location on Earth data obtained from the mobile device in a file along with the information representing the indicated colors, the operations comprising:

sending the file to a bird species database system for identification of the observed bird.

17. A system comprising:

one or more computers to provide one or more services;

a network coupled with the one or more computers; and

a mobile computing device configured to connect to the network and the one or more computers by wireless communication;

where the mobile computing device is programmed to perform operations comprising

presenting, on a mobile device, selectable templates showing bird body shapes,

receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating colors for predefined regions of a bird body shown in a selected template of the multiple selectable templates, the indicated colors corresponding to an observed bird, and

storing information representing the indicated colors for the predefined regions of the bird body for later identification of the observed bird.

18. The system of claim 17, the operations comprising:

receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating a bird type from among multiple bird types;

identifying the selectable templates for the presenting based on the input indicating the bird type;

receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating the selected template of the multiple selectable templates; and

receiving input, on the mobile device, indicating one or more sub-templates of the selected template to finalize a configuration of the selected template for use in receiving the input indicating the colors for the predefined regions.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the mobile device comprises a touch screen, receiving the input indicating the colors for the predefined regions comprises receiving on the touch screen a drag-and-drop between a location on a color pallet and any location in a predefined region corresponding to an anatomical region of the observed bird, and the operations comprise displaying a color snapping to the predefined region.

20. The system of claim 17, comprising:

a bird species database system;

wherein the storing comprises storing date, time and location on Earth data obtained from the mobile device in a file along with the information representing the indicated colors; and

the operations comprise sending the file to the bird species database system for identification of the observed bird.