Systems and methods for photograph mapping

• US 8,990,239 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2011
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lance Butler
• Original Assignee: Lance Butler
• Inventors: Butler, Lance
• Primary Examiner(s): THAI, HANH B
• Application Number:
  US13/196,044
• Publication Number:
  US 20120243804A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,330 Days
• Field of Search: 707/616, 707/763, 707/798, 707/808, 707/803
• US Class Current: 707/763
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• 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 16/587 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

Systems and methods for photograph mapping are disclosed herein. In one embodiment a first digital image and at least one user-generated datum is received from at least one user. The first image is geographically organized according to the at least one datum. The first image is associated with at least one location and at least one direction. The first image is provided from a first person perspective to a user in response to a request.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium having instructions that, when executed by a processing device, enable the processing device to perform a method comprising the steps of:

receiving multiple digital images, and user-generated and user-selectable data, from at least one user;

associating the multiple digital images and user-generated data from a database to produce a navigable locale from a first-person perspective in relation to at least one location of a map presentable on a display device;

organizing the digital images according to the data, including associating the images to a view within the navigable locale with the at least one location and at least one direction;

generating to the display device, a set of the digital images sorted in a succession and orientation corresponding and in response to a set of user selections of the at least one direction at the at least one location, the view from the first-person perspective;

wherein said set of the digital images sorted in a succession and orientation further comprises a tour highlighting spots or views of interest through the navigable locale, including locales of other users; and

wherein said tour further comprises a guided tour that users can create for others to follow through an ordered set of moves, turns and zooms to see whatever the user who created the tour wants to highlight.

2. A system comprising:

a computer-readable memory including multiple user-generated digital images and user-generated and user-selectable data;

a display device;

a processor in data communication with the memory, the display device, and a network;

the processor comprising;

a first component configured to receive multiple digital images, and user-generated data, from at least one user;

a second component configured to organize the digital images from a database into a navigable locale from at least one location of a map viewable on the display device according to the user-generated and user-selectable data, including associating the images with the at least one location and at least one direction to a view within the navigable locale;

a third component configured to generate to the display device the view from a first-person perspective within the navigable locale from the at least one location, and a set of the digital images sorted in a succession and orientation corresponding to and in response to a set of user selections of the at least one direction;

wherein said set of the digital images sorted in a succession and orientation further comprises a tour highlighting spots or images of interest through the navigable locale, including locales of other users; and

wherein said tour further comprises a guided tour that users can create for others to follow through an ordered set of moves, turns and zooms to see whatever the user who created the tour wants to highlight.