Systems and methods for recording information on a mobile computing device

• US 8,861,924 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2012
• Issued: 10/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Iquest Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Iquest Incorporated
• Inventors: Meads, Bobby F., Meere, Patrick L.
• Primary Examiner(s): JONES, HEATHER RAE
• Application Number:
  US13/715,824
• Publication Number:
  US 20130129311A1
• Time in Patent Office: 669 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 386/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/231 Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23418 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus

Abstract

A computer-readable medium storing computer executable instructions for: (1) receiving video footage taken by a handheld device; (2) identifying one or more indicia associated with a point of interest within the video footage; (3) using the one or more indicia to retrieve information associated with the point of interest; (4) displaying the information on a display screen associated with the handheld device as the video footage is being displayed on the display screen; and (5) recording a screen capture of the display screen as the display screen is displaying the video footage and information.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer executable instructions for:

(A) receiving video footage taken by a handheld device;

(B) identifying one or more RFID tags associated with a point of interest that is within said video footage;

(C) reading said one or more RFID tags to retrieve information associated with said point of interest; and

(D) displaying said information on a display screen associated with said handheld device as said video footage is being displayed on said display screen.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising computer-readable instructions for:

(E) recording a screen capture of said display screen as said display screen is displaying said video footage and said information.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, wherein said computer-readable medium further stores computer-executable instructions for allowing a user to annotate said video footage;

and

said Step (E) comprises recording said screen capture of said display screen as said display screen is displaying said video footage, said user'"'"'s annotations of said video footage, and said information.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein said user'"'"'s annotations of said video footage comprise said user'"'"'s verbal annotations recorded by said handheld device.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein said user'"'"'s annotations of said video footage comprise handwritten annotations.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 2, further comprising computer-readable instructions for saving said screen capture as a single file.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said point of interest is a human being.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said handheld device comprises an RFID reader.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said step of displaying said information on said display screen comprises superimposing said information over said video footage as said video footage is being displayed on said display screen.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein said computer-readable medium comprises computer-executable instructions for substantially continuously updating said information to reflect a current status of said point of interest that corresponds to the status of the point of interest at the time that the video being displayed on the display screen was taken.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said information is dynamic information that communicates a current status of said point of interest when the video of the point of interest was taken.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein said Steps (A)-(D) are executed at least substantially in real time.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said information associated with said point of interest comprises identifying information for said point of interest.