Shared image device designation

• US 9,910,341 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2007
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Jung, Edward K. Y., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, Jr., John D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ye, Lin
• Assistant Examiner(s): CAMARGO, MARLY S.B.
• Application Number:
  US11/998,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20080158366A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,749 Days
• Field of Search: 34821199, 3482119, 3482113, 725105
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/20 visible in viewfinder
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00137 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00159 for sharing images without access restriction, e.g. publishing images
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00164 at a remote location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00172 directly from a still digital camera or from a storage medium mounted in a still digital camera H04N1/0018 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00347 with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00448 horizontally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/001 Sharing resources, e.g. processing power or memory, with a connected apparatus or enhancing the capability of the still picture apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0037 Topological details of the connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/66 Remote control of cameras or camera parts, e.g. by remote control devices

Abstract

In certain aspects, receiving at least one motivating event at least partially at a processing shared image device. At least one designated attribute is transmitted at least partially from the processing shared image device, wherein the at least one designated attribute can be effected at least partially in response to the receiving the at least one motivating event at least partially at the processing shared image device. An obtained shared image is obtained at the processing shared image device that is obtained in accordance with the at least one motivating event, and is obtained at least partially in response to the transmitting the at least one designated attribute. The obtained shared image is processed to derive an at least one processed shared image at least partially at the processing shared image device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining at least one indication of at least one position of at least one voice communication device, the at least one voice communication device including at least one camera component embedded within the at least one voice communication device, the at least one indication of position derived from positioning equipment installed in the at least one voice communication device;

causing the at least one voice communication device to display at least one indication of at least one desired image associated with the at least one position of the at least one voice communication device;

receiving at least one image from the at least one voice communication device;

storing the at least one image in at least one data store, the at least one image stored in association with at least one identification of at least one user of the at least one voice communication device and with at least one indication of at least one subject of the at least one image related to the at least one position;

determining whether the at least one image stored in the at least one data store needs review based at least partially on at least one recognition of at least one content of the at least one image; and

enabling the at least one image stored in the at least one data store to be searched by at least one other device based at least partially on at least one received indication of location if the at least one image stored in the at least one data store does not need review,

wherein at least one of the determining, causing, receiving, storing, or enabling is at least partially implemented using at least one processing device.

2. A system, comprising:

circuitry configured for determining at least one indication of at least one position of at least one voice communication device, the at least one voice communication device including at least one camera component embedded within the at least one voice communication device, the at least one indication of position derived from positioning equipment installed in the at least one voice communication device;

circuitry configured for causing the at least one voice communication device to display at least one indication of at least one desired image associated with the at least one position of the at least one voice communication device;

circuitry configured for receiving at least one image from the at least one voice communication device;

circuitry configured for storing the at least one image in at least one data store, the at least one image stored in association with at least one identification of at least one user of the at least one voice communication device and with at least one indication of at least one subject of the at least one image related to the at least one position;

circuitry configured for determining whether the at least one image stored in the at least one data store needs review based at least partially on at least one recognition of at least one content of the at least one image; and

circuitry configured for enabling the at least one image stored in the at least one data store to be searched by at least one other device based at least partially on at least one received indication of location if the at least one image stored in the at least one data store does not need review.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for causing the at least one voice communication device to display at least one indication of at least one desired image associated with the at least one position of the at least one voice communication device comprises:

circuitry configured for transmitting at least one voice request for at least one user associated with the at least one voice communication device to capture at least one image related to the at least one position of the at least one voice communication device.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for causing the at least one voice communication device to display at least one indication of at least one desired image associated with the at least one position of the at least one voice communication device comprises:

circuitry configured for determining whether at least one location within at least one proximity of the at least one position of the at least one voice communication device is a location of interest and, if the at least one location within at least one proximity of the at least one position of the at least one voice communication device is a location of interest, outputting information associated with transmitting at least one request for at least one user of the voice communication device to capture at least one image of the location of interest.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for storing the at least one image in at least one data store, the at least one image stored in association with at least one identification of at least one user of the at least one voice communication device and with at least one indication of at least one subject of the at least one image related to the at least one position comprises:

circuitry configured for storing identity information, including at least one email address, associated with at least one user of the at least one voice communication device that transmitted the at least one image in association with storage of the at least one image and the at least one received indication of location.

6. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

circuitry configured for altering brightness of the at least one image stored in the data store subsequent to the at least one image being stored in the data store, including at least modifying at least one data file associated with containing the at least one image to modify the brightness of the at least one image contained in the at least one data file.

7. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

circuitry configured for filtering the at least one image stored in the data store to obtain one or more images related to at least one location responsive to a search query including at least one indication of the at least one location.

8. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

circuitry configured for altering at least one of depth of field, color balance, or color space of the at least one image stored in the data store.

9. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

circuitry configured for altering at least one of sharpness or contrast of the at least one image stored in the data store.

10. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

circuitry configured for modifying content of the at least one image stored in the data store.

11. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining whether the at least one image stored in the at least one data store needs review based at least partially on at least one recognition of at least one content of the at least one image comprises:

circuitry configured for obtaining metadata embedded within the at least one image to recognize at least one geographic position of at least one subject included in the at least one content of the at least one image;

circuitry configured for comparing the at least one geographic position with one or more stored indications of position of the at least one subject of the at least one image related to the at least one position; and

circuitry configured for marking the at least one image stored in the at least one data store for review at least partly based on at least one indication of the comparing that at least one geographic position at which the at least one image was captured does not match the one or more stored indications of position of the at least one subject of the at least one image related to the at least one position.

12. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

circuitry configured for determining, responsive to at least one search, whether one or more images stored in the at least one data store related to at least one received indication of location were captured within at least one specified date or time.

13. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

circuitry configured for transferring to at least one separate storage location a second version of the at least one image stored in the data store based at least partially on detecting that the second version of the at least one image stored in the data store has a different resolution than a first version of the at least one image stored in the data store, the first version of the at least one image stored in the data store stored subsequent to causing the at least one voice communication device to display at least one indication of at least one desired image associated with the at least one position of the at least one voice communication device.

14. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining at least one indication of at least one position of at least one device, the at least one indication of position derived from positioning equipment installed in the at least one voice communication device comprises:

circuitry configured for receiving at least one indication of at least one image captured by the at least one voice communication device, including at least receiving at least one position at which the at least one image captured by the at least one voice communication device was captured, the at least one position at which the at least one image captured by the at least one voice communication device was captured sensed by at least one GPS sensor of the voice communication device.

15. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining at least one indication of at least one position of at least one voice communication device, the at least one indication of position derived from positioning equipment installed in the at least one voice communication device comprises:

circuitry configured for receiving at least one indication of at least one location of interest within at least one proximity of the at least one voice communication device, including at least receiving at least one position of the at least one voice communication device and determining that there is at least one location of interest within the at least one proximity of the at least one voice communication device based at least partially on the received at least one position of the at least one voice communication device.

16. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for causing the at least one voice communication device to display at least one indication of at least one desired image associated with the at least one position of the at least one voice communication device comprises:

circuitry configured for detecting that at least one image captured by the at least one voice communication device is within at least one proximity of at least one location of interest; and

circuitry configured for causing the at least one voice communication device to present at least one question to at least one user of the at least one voice communication device as to whether the at least one user of the at least one voice communication device wants to share the at least one image captured by the at least one voice communication device within the at least one proximity of the at least one location of interest.

17. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for enabling the at least one image stored in the at least one data store to be searched by at least one other device based at least partially on at least one received indication of location comprises:

circuitry configured for receiving at least one request for one or more images of at least one location of interest; and

circuitry configured for returning one or more images stored in the data store in association with at least one indication of at least one subject matching the at least one location of interest.

18. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for storing the at least one image in at least one data store, the at least one image stored in association with at least one identification of at least one user of the at least one voice communication device and with at least one indication of at least one subject of the at least one image related to the at least one position comprises:

circuitry configured for storing the at least one image in at least one data store, the at least one image stored in association with at least one identification of at least one user of the at least one voice communication device and in association with at least one identification of at least one commercial establishment presumed to be portrayed by the at least one image.

19. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

circuitry configured for transmitting at least one message to the at least one user of the at least one voice communication device related to the determining whether the at least one image stored in the at least one data store needs review based at least partially on at least one recognition of at least one content of the at least one image.

20. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining whether the at least one image stored in the at least one data store needs review based at least partially on at least one recognition of at least one content of the at least one image comprises:

circuitry configured for using image recognition to recognize at least one content included within the at least one image causing the at least one image to need review.

21. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for determining whether the at least one image stored in the at least one data store needs review based at least partially on at least one recognition of at least one content of the at least one image comprises:

circuitry configured for using image recognition to determine at least one quality level of the at least one image; and

circuitry configured for determining that the at least one image needs review if the at least one quality level of the at least one image is below a threshold quality level.

22. A computer program product, comprising:

at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium including at least;

one or more instructions for determining at least one indication of at least one position of at least one voice communication device, the at least one voice communication device including at least one camera component embedded within the at least one voice communication device, the at least one indication of position derived from positioning equipment installed in the at least one voice communication device;

one or more instructions for causing the at least one voice communication device to display at least one indication of at least one desired image associated with the at least one position of the at least one voice communication device;

one or more instructions for receiving at least one image from the at least one voice communication device;

one or more instructions for storing the at least one image in at least one data store, the at least one image stored in association with at least one identification of at least one user of the at least one voice communication device and with at least one indication of at least one subject of the at least one image related to the at least one position;

one or more instructions for determining whether the at least one image stored in the at least one data store needs review based at least partially on at least one recognition of at least one content of the at least one image; and

one or more instructions for enabling the at least one image stored in the at least one data store to be searched by at least one other device based at least partially on at least one received indication of location if the at least one image stored in the at least one data store does not need review.

23. A system, comprising:

at least one computing device; and

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform one or more operations including at least;

determining at least one indication of at least one position of at least one voice communication device, the at least one voice communication device including at least one camera component embedded within the at least one voice communication device, the at least one indication of position derived from positioning equipment installed in the at least one voice communication device;

causing the at least one voice communication device to display at least one indication of at least one desired image associated with the at least one position of the at least one voice communication device;

receiving at least one image from the at least one voice communication device;

storing the at least one image in at least one data store, the at least one image stored in association with at least one identification of at least one user of the at least one voice communication device and with at least one indication of at least one subject of the at least one image related to the at least one position;

determining whether the at least one image stored in the at least one data store needs review based at least partially on at least one recognition of at least one content of the at least one image; and

enabling the at least one image stored in the at least one data store to be searched by at least one other device based at least partially on at least one received indication of location if the at least one image stored in the at least one data store does not need review.

24. A system, comprising:

circuitry configured for determining at least one indication of at least one position of at least one device, the at least one indication of position derived from at least one GPS sensor of the at least one device, including at least receiving the at least one indication of position from at least one mobile device as the at least one device, the at least one mobile device including at least one wireless network interface and at least one camera;

circuitry configured for causing the at least one mobile device to display at least one indication of at least one desired image associated with the at least one position of the at least one mobile device, including at least providing feedback to the at least one mobile device, the feedback including at least one indication related to at least one subject related to the at least one position of which at least one captured image by the at least one mobile device is desired;

circuitry configured for receiving at least one image from the at least one mobile device;

circuitry configured for storing the at least one image in at least one data store, the at least one image stored in association with at least one identification of at least one user of the at least one mobile device and in association with at least one identification of at least one commercial establishment presumed to be portrayed by the at least one image;

circuitry configured for determining whether the at least one image stored in the at least one data store needs review based at least partially on at least one recognition of at least one content of the at least one image, including at least determining that the at least one image stored in the at least one data store needs review if the at least one content of the at least one image does not include a portrayal associated with the at least one commercial establishment; and

circuitry configured for enabling the at least one image stored in the at least one data store to be searched by at least one other device based at least partially on at least one received indication of at least one commercial establishment if the at least one image stored in the at least one data store does not need review.