PERSON WEARABLE PHOTO EXPERIENCE AGGREGATOR APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS

• US 20160360160A1
• Filed: 02/23/2015
• Published: 12/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Catch Motion Inc. (iON Contour)
• Original Assignee: Catch Motion Inc. (iON Contour)
• Inventors: EIZENBERG, Rom
• Application Number:
  US15/120,961
• Publication Number:
  US 20160360160A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/50 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

The PERSON WEARABLE PHOTO EXPERIENCE AGGREGATOR APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“CMN”) may transform event creation and user experience media object generation inputs using CMN components into meta-tagged media objects and time-bounded, location-common social experience timelines. Apparatuses, methods, and systems herein describe capturing media using a wearable photo capture device which can use sensors to stabilize media capture, and/or can use the sensors to determine when to capture media. The wearable photo capture device can connect to an application on a mobile device for further functionality, including a social network (SN) feature which allows for creation of public and private Events for which a user (or, with permission from the user, additional users) can provide substantially live streams of media objects generated by the wearable photo capture device. The user can also, via the SN, interact with media objects created by other users and added to such Events.

Claims

1. A wearable photo capture apparatus, comprising:

at least one sensor element configured to obtain external environment information;

a media capture element configured to create a media object in response to instructions to capture a media object, the media capture element configured to capture the media object in part based on the external environment information from the at least one sensor;

a media processing element configured to create a meta-tag to be associated with the media object based on the external environment information from the at least one sensor; and

a memory operatively coupled to a wireless network element and configured to store the media object and associated meta-tag generated from the meta-tagging of the media object such that a mobile communications device can automatically request the media object when the mobile communications device is connected to the wearable photo capture apparatus via the wireless network element.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one sensor element is at least one of a vibration sensor, an acceleration sensor, a gyroscope sensor, a temperature sensor, a proximity sensor, a light sensor, or a microphone sensor.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein capturing a media object consists of at least one of taking a picture, recording a video, or recording audio.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the external environment information from the at least one sensor is used to determine at least one of how or when to capture the media object.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the at least one sensor element is at least one of a motion, an acceleration sensor, or a gyroscope sensor, and the media capture element is responsive to motion detected by the at least one sensor element to capture the media object when an amount of motion or acceleration detected is below a predetermined threshold.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the at least one sensor element is at least one of a motion sensor, an acceleration sensor, or a gyroscope sensor, and

the media capture element is responsive to motion detected by the at least one sensor element to delay capture of the media object when an amount of motion and/or acceleration detected is above a predetermined threshold.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the external environment information is information about motion, light, sound, temperature, humidity, or other objects, detected by the at least one sensor element.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the media processing element is further configured to append the metadata to the media object, the metadata being at least one of a timestamp, an altitude, a geolocation, information about network signals detected near the geolocation, or configuration settings at the time the media object was captured.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the instructions to capture the media object are received from the mobile communications device via a network connection to the mobile communications device.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the instructions to capture the media object are received from the mobile communications device via a network connection to a cloud server.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a magnetic clip attached to a housing enclosing the wearable photo capture apparatus, the magnetic clip configured to attach the wearable photo capture apparatus to an article of clothing.

12. A processor implemented method of generating media content, comprising:

receiving via processor a signal from a wearable photo capture device indicating that the wearable photo capture device has captured a plurality of media objects , the plurality of media objects having associated therewith sensor metadata;

establishing a network connection with the wearable photo capture device in response to the signal;

retrieving the plurality of media objects from the wearable photo capture device;

applying one or more meta-tags to each of the plurality of media objects using at least one of user data and contextual media data;

storing the plurality of media objects, sensor metadata, and meta-tags in memory;

establishing a network connection with a cloud database; and

forwarding the plurality of media objects and meta-tags to the cloud database such that the cloud database stores the plurality of media objects and meta-tags in memory.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the sensor metadata is information about motion, light, sounds, temperatures, humidity, or other objects, detected by at least one sensor element on the wearable photo capture device.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the network connection is one of a local network connection over Bluetooth, or an internet connection over one of a Wi-Fi connection or a cellular network connection.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the user data is at least one of an identifier, a username, or mobile communications device information.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein:

the contextual media data being at least one of global positioning system (GPS) data, or information generated by an image recognition module, and

the information generated by an image recognition module being keywords associated with at least one of a location, a building, a person, an animal, a season, or weather detected within the media object by the image recognition module.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

sending an instruction via the processor to the wearable photo capture device instructing the wearable photo capture device to automatically delete the plurality of media objects from a memory on the wearable photo capture device in response to the plurality of media objects being retrieved from the wearable photo capture device.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein each of the plurality of media objects is one of a picture, a video, or an audio clip.

19. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

displaying via a display module, a media object preview window within a viewfinder interface on a mobile communications device;

receiving via the processor, instructions from a user via the viewfinder interface to capture content displayed in the media object preview window; and

sending via the processor, a signal to the wearable photo capture device including the instructions to capture the content displayed in the media object preview window.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein the plurality of media objects is a first plurality of media objects, the method further comprising:

establishing a network connection with a second wearable photo capture device;

retrieving a second plurality of media objects from the second wearable photo capture device;

applying one or more meta-tags to each of the plurality of media objects; and

forwarding the second plurality of media objects and the associated meta-tags to the cloud database such that the cloud database stores the second plurality of media objects and associated meta-tags in memory.

21. A method of capturing media objects, the method comprising:

receiving a signal from a user to capture a media object;

obtaining sensor data from at least one sensor element, the at least one sensor being one of a light sensor or a motion sensor;

determining a media capture state based on the sensor data from the at least one sensor element;

when the media capture state is positive;

capturing the media object based using the sensor data;

meta-tagging the media object with the sensor data and media object metadata;

storing the media object in a local memory;

sending a signal to one of a mobile communications device or a cloud server indicating the media object has been stored, such that the mobile communications device or the cloud server requests the media object; and

deleting the media object from the local memory when the media object has been sent.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

delaying capturing the media object when the media capture state is negative;

obtaining additional sensor data from the at least one sensor element;

determining a second media capture state based on the additional sensor data from the at least one sensor element;

when the second media capture state is positive;

capturing the media object based using the sensor data;

meta-tagging the media object with the sensor data and media object metadata; and

storing the media object in the local memory such that the mobile communications device can automatically request the media object; and

delaying capturing the media object when the second media capture state is negative.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein capturing the media object based on using the sensor data includes using the sensor data to automatically correct errors caused by external environmental factors during the capture of the media object.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the sensor data is at least one of light sensor data, accelerometer sensor data, gyroscope sensor data, or vibration sensor data.

25. The method of claim 21, wherein the media object metadata is at least one of a timestamp, an altitude, a geolocation, information about network signals detected near the geolocation, or configuration settings at the time the media object was captured.