METHODS, DEVICES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CLASSIFYING DIGITAL MEDIA FILES BASED ON ASSOCIATED GEOGRAPHICAL IDENTIFICATION METADATA

• US 20110225151A1
• Filed: 03/15/2010
• Published: 09/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Annambhotla, Srinivas, Dunko, Gregory A., Gopalakrishna, Muralimohan
• Application Number:
  US12/723,890
• Publication Number:
  US 20110225151A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/724
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method for classifying digital media files includes obtaining geographical information from geographical identification metadata associated with one or more digital media files stored in a memory of a mobile terminal, and assigning a respective ranking to the one or more digital media files within one or more media classification categories based on the obtained geographical information. A summary view of the one or more ranked digital media files is displayed, the summary view including two axes, each axis corresponding to at least one of the one or more media classification categories. A travel profile for a user of the mobile terminal, including the user'"'"'s travel preferences as determined by the respective ranking of at least one ranked digital media file in one or more of the media classification categories, is generated, and relevant travel information is presented to the user. Related devices and computer program products are also discussed.

Claims

1. A method for classifying digital media files, the method comprising:

obtaining geographical information from geographical identification metadata associated with each of one or more digital media files stored in a memory of a mobile terminal; and

assigning a respective ranking to each of the one or more digital media files within one or more media classification categories based on the obtained geographical information;

wherein the obtaining and/or the assigning comprise operations performed using a programmed processor circuit.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

submitting the obtained geographical information to a data source; and

receiving, from the data source, information for ranking each of the one or more digital media files within the one or more media classification categories;

wherein assigning the respective ranking to each of the one or more digital media files comprises assigning the respective ranking based on the information received from the data source.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein receiving information for ranking each of the one or more digital media files includes receiving information indicating a relative popularity within the one or more media classification categories of a location identified by the submitted geographical information;

and

wherein assigning the respective ranking to each of the one or more digital media files comprises assigning the respective ranking based on the relative popularity of the location.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtained geographical information includes latitude coordinates, longitude coordinates, elevation data, altitude data, bearing data, accuracy data, and/or place name related to a respective location where each of the one or more digital media files was created.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

presenting a summary view, via a display of the mobile terminal, of the one or more ranked digital media files, the summary view including two axes, each of the two axes corresponding to at least one of the one or more media classification categories; and

displaying a respective indicator representing each of the one or more ranked digital media files in the summary view;

wherein positions of the respective indicators in the summary view are determined by the respective rankings of the one or more digital media files in the at least one of the one or more media classification categories corresponding to each of the two axes.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the positions of the respective indicators along each of the two axes is indicative of the respective rankings of the one or more digital media files in the at least one of the one or more media classification categories corresponding to each of the two axes.

7. The method according to claim 5, the method further comprising:

receiving a user selection of a home location for a user of the mobile terminal and/or for a person associated with a user of the mobile terminal;

wherein the positions of the respective indicators relative to an intersection of the two axes are indicative of the distances between respective locations identified by the obtained geographical information and the home location.

8. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

receiving a user selection of a region of the summary view; and

receiving a user selection of an operation to be performed on at least one of the one or more digital media files having a respective indicator that is included in the selected region of the summary view.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the operation includes copying, deleting, displaying, printing, editing, annotating, classifying, tagging, uploading, e-mailing, texting, and/or electronically transmitting the at least one of the one or more digital media files.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

generating a travel profile for a user of the mobile terminal, the travel profile including the user'"'"'s travel preferences as determined by the respective ranking of at least one of the one or more digital media files in at least one of the one or more of the media classification categories.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

automatically downloading from an external source information relevant to the user'"'"'s travel preferences as determined by the generated travel profile; and

presenting the downloaded information via a display of the mobile terminal.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the automatically downloaded information includes information related to travel discounts, vacation packages, weather information, and/or news alerts.

13. The method according to claim 2, wherein the digital media files are digital photographs and/or digital video files, and wherein the method further comprises:

submitting the one or more digital media files to the data source; and

wherein receiving information for ranking the one or more digital media files includes receiving image recognition results from the data source, the image recognition results identifying persons, places, objects, and/or geographic features visible in the one or more digital media files; and

wherein assigning the respective ranking to each of the one or more digital media files is based on the received image recognition results.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more media classification categories include a category indicating a degree to which a location may be considered urban, rural, scenic, adventure, ocean, and/or beach.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more media classification categories include a time category, and wherein assigning the respective rankings to each of the one or more digital media files is based on a respective timestamp associated with each of the one or more digital media files indicating a respective date and/or time that each of the one or more digital media files was created.

16. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a memory configured to store one or more digital media files, each of the one or more digital media files having associated geographical identification metadata; and

a controller configured to obtain geographical information from the geographical identification metadata associated with each of the one or more digital media files stored in the memory, and assign a respective ranking to each of the one or more digital media files within one or more media classification categories based on the obtained geographical information.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 16, wherein the controller is further configured to submit the obtained geographical information to a data source, and receive from the data source information for ranking the one or more digital media files within the one or more media classification categories;

and

wherein assigning the respective ranking to each of the one or more digital media files comprises assigning the respective ranking based on the information received from the data source.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 16, further comprising:

a display configured to present a summary view of the one or more ranked digital media files, the summary view including two axes, each of the two axes corresponding to at least one of the one or more media classification categories;

wherein the display is further configured to display a respective indicator representing each of the one or more ranked digital media files in the summary view; and

wherein positions of the respective indicators in the summary view are determined by the respective rankings of the digital media files in the at least one of the one or more media classification categories corresponding to each of the two axes.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 18, further comprising:

a user interface configured to receive a user selection of a region of the summary view, and further configured to receive a user selection of an operation to be performed on at least one of the one or more digital media files having a respective indicator that is included in the selected region of the summary view;

wherein the operation includes copying, deleting, displaying, printing editing, annotating, classifying, tagging, uploading, e-mailing, texting, and/or electronically transmitting at least one of the one or more digital media files.

20. A computer program product providing the classification of digital media files stored on a mobile terminal and having associated geographical identification metadata, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied in said medium, said computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code that, when executed by a processor, obtains geographical information from geographical identification metadata associated with each of one or more digital media files stored in a memory of a mobile terminal; and

computer readable program code that, when executed by a processor, assigns a respective ranking to each of the one or more digital media files within one or more media classification categories based on the obtained geographical information.