GROUP METHOD FOR MAKING EVENT-RELATED MEDIA COLLECTION

• US 20130129232A1
• Filed: 11/21/2011
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Joseph Anthony Manico, Mark S. Cook, Neil Cannon, Peter Karl Traeg, Ronald Steven Cok
• Inventors: COK, RONALD STEVEN, CAMPBELL, JON ALLEN, CANNON, NEIL, COOK, MARK S., MANICO, JOSEPH ANTHONY, TRAEG, PETER KARL
• Granted Patent: US 8,761,523 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/30 in albums, collections or shared content, e.g. social network photos or video
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/142 using hand-held instruments; Constructional details of the instruments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00137 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00156 with a group of selected individuals or correspondents
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00169 Digital image input
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3215 of a time or duration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information

Abstract

A method for making a media collection associated with an event having an event location, includes receiving a specification of members in a group; using a processor to receive one or more media elements from each of a plurality of media-capture devices, each media element having a capture location; defining the event in response to receiving one or more media-capture-device signals having the event location from group members; and associating media elements having the event location received at the same time or after the event definition with a stored media event collection corresponding to the event for subsequent use.

Claims

1. A method for making a media collection associated with an event having an event location, comprising:

receiving a specification of members in a group;

using a processor to receive one or more media elements from each of a plurality of media-capture devices, each media element having a capture location;

defining the event in response to receiving one or more media-capture-device signals having the event location from group members; and

associating media elements having the event location received at the same time or after the event definition with a stored media event collection corresponding to the event for subsequent use.

2. The method according to claim 1, further including sequentially receiving a media-capture device signal from each group member that sequentially visits the event location and terminates the event when the group members have left the event location.

3. The method according to claim 1, further including communicating a message to one or more of the group members.

4. The method according to claim 1, further including communicating a message including an event location, a location of one or more group members, a group identifier, or a time to one or more of the group members.

5. The method according to claim 1, further including defining the event in response to receiving media-capture-device signals having the event location from a percentage of the group members.

6. The method according to claim 1, further including defining the event in response to receiving media-capture-device signals having a common location from a pre-determined number of group members and wherein the common location is the event location.

7. The method according to claim 1, further including defining the event in response to receiving media-capture-device signals from a pre-defined number of the plurality of media-acquisition devices in the group when the media-capture-device signals stop moving toward the event location or a common location.

8. The method according to claim 1, further including defining the event in response to receiving media-capture-device signals from a pre-defined number of the plurality of media-acquisition devices in the group when the media-acquisition devices in the group are within audible range of each other, visual range of each other, or when a pre-defined number of the plurality of media-acquisition devices in the group are within local wireless network operational range of each other. (Bluetooth, WiFi, line-of-sight infrared).

9. The method according to claim 1, further including providing the media collection, a reference to the media collection, a product including at least a portion of the media collection, or a reference to a product including at least a portion of the media collection to one or more of the group members.

10. The method according to claim 1, further including receiving a media-capture-device signal having an identifier.

11. The method according to claim 1, further including receiving selection or editing instructions from one or more of the group members for one or more media elements in the media collection or for a product including at least a portion of the media collection and performing the selection or editing instructions.

12. The method according to claim 1, further including receiving a media element, comparing the capture location of the media element to the event location, and, if the capture location corresponds to the event location, associating the media element with the corresponding stored media event collection.

13. The method according to claim 12, further including receiving a media element having a capture time, comparing the capture time of the media element to a time at which the event was defined, and, if the capture time is the same as or after the event definition time, associating the media element with the corresponding stored media event collection.

14. The method according to claim 1, further including providing the event location and a selection tool to one or more media-capture devices, the provided selection tool operable to compare the capture location of a media element to the communicated event location, and, if the capture location corresponds to the event location, communicate the media element.

15. The method according to claim 14, further including communicating an event time at which the event was defined and wherein the selection tool is operable to compare the capture time of a media element to the communicated event time, and, if the capture time corresponds to the event time, communicate the media element.

16. The method according to claim 1, further including communicating a media product including one or more media elements to one or more members of the group during the event.

17. The method according to claim 1, further including communicating a media product including one or more media elements to one or more members of the group in response to one or more members of the group returning to the event location.