System and method for providing viewers of a digital image information about identifiable objects and scenes within the image
First Claim
1. A computer based method for providing viewers of a digital image with information about certain objects and scenes displayed within identifiable areas of the digital image, wherein the identifiable areas comprise less than the entire digital image, the method comprising:
- (a) associating pre-stored product information hyperlinks with corresponding identifiable areas in the digital image to produce a customized digital image, by identifying and linking the product information links with the corresponding identifiable areas, comprising;
i. identifying specific objects and scenes of interest in the digital image;
ii. circumscribing an area around each identified object and scene of interest;
iii. receiving descriptive text from a user describing said identified specific objects and scenes of interest in at least one of said circumscribed areas;
iv. extracting one or more keywords from the descriptive text received from the user;
v. searching an existing data-store comprised of a plurality of records, each record comprising one or more keywords and at least one associated product information hyperlink to identify relevant product information hyperlinks from the existing data-store based on a keyword match between the one or more extracted keywords and the keywords in the existing data-store;
vi. linking the identified product information hyperlinks with said corresponding identifiable areas in the digital image, to thereby form an association;
(b) displaying the customized digital image to a viewer, the customized digital image including the identified product information links associated with said corresponding identifiable areas of the digital image;
(c) receiving, from the user, a selection of a given associated product information hyperlink in said digital image, selected in association with a given corresponding area in the digital image;
(d) retrieving information, from an address included in said selected product information hyperlink that identifies a location of content on an electronic network; and
(e) displaying said retrieved information to the viewer.
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Abstract
There are provided methods and systems for providing viewers of a digital image with information about identifiable and scenes within the image. In an embodiment, digital images, uploaded to a host website, are customized through the incorporation of some number of selectable informational links and other text based information to provide viewers of the image real-time access to social and advertising related information regarding certain identifiable objects and scenes in the image. The selectable information links are incorporated within and around the digital image in a process referred to herein as image tagging.
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1. A computer based method for providing viewers of a digital image with information about certain objects and scenes displayed within identifiable areas of the digital image, wherein the identifiable areas comprise less than the entire digital image, the method comprising:
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(a) associating pre-stored product information hyperlinks with corresponding identifiable areas in the digital image to produce a customized digital image, by identifying and linking the product information links with the corresponding identifiable areas, comprising; i. identifying specific objects and scenes of interest in the digital image; ii. circumscribing an area around each identified object and scene of interest; iii. receiving descriptive text from a user describing said identified specific objects and scenes of interest in at least one of said circumscribed areas; iv. extracting one or more keywords from the descriptive text received from the user; v. searching an existing data-store comprised of a plurality of records, each record comprising one or more keywords and at least one associated product information hyperlink to identify relevant product information hyperlinks from the existing data-store based on a keyword match between the one or more extracted keywords and the keywords in the existing data-store; vi. linking the identified product information hyperlinks with said corresponding identifiable areas in the digital image, to thereby form an association; (b) displaying the customized digital image to a viewer, the customized digital image including the identified product information links associated with said corresponding identifiable areas of the digital image; (c) receiving, from the user, a selection of a given associated product information hyperlink in said digital image, selected in association with a given corresponding area in the digital image; (d) retrieving information, from an address included in said selected product information hyperlink that identifies a location of content on an electronic network; and (e) displaying said retrieved information to the viewer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for providing viewers of a digital image with information about certain objects and scenes displayed within identifiable areas of the digital image, wherein the identifiable areas comprise less than the entire digital image, the system comprising:
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a processor; a memory connected to the processor and storing instructions for operating the processor to perform the steps of; (a) associating pre-stored product information hyperlinks with corresponding identifiable areas in the digital image to produce a customized digital image, by identifying and linking the product information hyperlinks with the corresponding identifiable areas, comprising; identifying specific objects and scenes of interest in the digital image; circumscribing an area around each identified object and scene of interest; receiving descriptive text from a user describing said identified specific objects and scenes of interest in at least one of said circumscribed areas; extracting one or more keywords from the descriptive text received from the user; searching an existing data-store comprised of a plurality of records, each record comprising one or more keywords and at least one associated product information hyperlink to identify relevant product information hyperlinks from the existing data-store based on a keyword match between the one or more extracted keywords and the keywords in the existing data-store; linking the identified product information hyperlinks with said corresponding identifiable areas in the digital image, to thereby form an association; (b) displaying the customized digital image to a viewer, the customized digital image including the identified product information hyperlinks associated with said corresponding identifiable areas; (c) receiving, from the user, a selection of a given associated product information hyperlink in said digital image, selected in association with a given corresponding area in the digital image; (d) retrieving information, from an address included in said selected associated product information hyperlink that identifies a location of content on an electronic network; and (e) displaying said retrieved information to the viewer. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A computer based method for providing viewers of a digital image with information about certain objects and scenes displayed within identifiable areas of the digital image, wherein the identifiable areas comprise less than the entire digital image, the method comprising:
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a processor; a memory connected to the processor and storing instructions for operating the processor to perform the steps of; associating product information links with corresponding identifiable areas in the digital image to produce a customized digital image, by identifying and linking the product information links with the corresponding identifiable areas, comprising; i. identifying specific objects and scenes of interest in the digital image; ii. circumscribing an area around each identified object and scene of interest; iii. receiving descriptive text from a user describing said identified specific objects and scenes of interest in at least one of said circumscribed areas; iv. extracting one or more keywords from the descriptive text received from the user; v. searching an existing data-store comprised of a plurality of common images stored in association with a corresponding plurality of product information links, to identify relevant product information links to be associated with said identifiable areas in the digital image based on image matching; vi. linking the identified relevant product information links with said corresponding identifiable areas in the digital image, wherein linking comprises; a) creating a record for said digital image, said record including at least associated coordinate data for each identifiable area within the digital image, b) determining when a user scrolls across the digital image, whether a current pointer position is within the boundaries of a circumscribed area of the digital image defined by the associated coordinate data, c) retrieving from memory one of the identified product information links associated with the identifiable area; displaying the customized digital image to a viewer, the customized digital image including the identified relevant product information links associated with said corresponding identifiable areas; receiving the viewer selection of a given associated product information link in said digital image, selected in association with a given corresponding area in the digital image; retrieving information, from an address included in said selected product information link that identifies a location of content on an electronic network; and displaying said retrieved information to the viewer.
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24. A system for creating an electronic storage record linking one or more identifiable objects or scenes in a digital image with at least one corresponding informational link that pertains to an address that identifies a location of content on a wide area network, the system comprising:
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a processor; a memory connected to the processor and storing instructions for operating the processor to perform the steps of; identifying specific objects and scenes of interest in the digital image; circumscribing an area around each identified object and scene of interest; sampling a region of the digital image corresponding to each circumscribed area including a given identifiable object or scene in the digital image, wherein said circumscribed area comprises less than the entire digital image; storing each sampled region of the digital image as part of a record linking each sampled region with at least one product information hyperlink; receiving descriptive text from a user describing said identifiable areas in the digital image; extracting one or more keywords from the descriptive text received from the user; searching an existing data-store comprised of keywords and associated product information hyperlinks to identify relevant product information hyperlinks from the existing data-store based on a keyword match between the one or more extracted keywords and the keywords in the existing data-store; including the identified product information hyperlinks as part of the record, to thereby form an association with the previously stored sampled regions displaying the digital image to a viewer, the digital image including the identified product information hyperlinks associated with said sampled regions; receiving, from the user, a selection of a given associated product information hyperlink in said digital image, selected in association with a given sampled region in the digital image; retrieving information, from an address included in said selected associated product information hyperlink that identifies a location of content on an electronic network; and displaying said retrieved information to the viewer. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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