US 10,834,312 B2 · Portable electronic device with a creative artworks picture application operating in response to beacons

Abstract

A portable electronic device (PED) includes a processor, and a transceiver coupled to the processor. The transceiver is configured to receive an RF signal having a unique identifier associated therewith when the PED is in proximity to at least one themed photograph overlay image beacon at a designated area. The unique identifier corresponds to at least one of a themed photograph overlay on a remote server. The transceiver transmits the unique identifier to the remote server, and receives the least one themed photograph overlay from the remote server based on the transmitted unique identifier. A camera is coupled to the processor and takes a photograph at the designated area. A display is coupled to the processor and displays the photograph with the at least one themed photograph overlay.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A portable electronic device (PED) comprising:

a processor;
a transceiver coupled to said processor and configured to perform the following:
receive an RF signal having a unique identifier associated therewith when the PED is in proximity to at least one themed photograph overlay image beacon at a designated area, with the unique identifier corresponding to at least one of a themed photograph overlay on a remote server,
transmit the unique identifier to the remote server, and
receive the least one themed photograph overlay from the remote server based on the transmitted unique identifier;
a camera coupled to said processor and configured to take a photograph at the designated area;
and
a display coupled to said processor and configured to display the photograph with the at least one themed photograph overlay for a set time interval corresponding to when the at least one themed photograph overlay was received.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/795,767Filed 20 Feb 2020 · continuation

Priority

21 Feb 2014

Published

US 2020/0195840 A118 Jun 2020

Granted

10 Nov 2020

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

H04N 23/64
Control of cameras or camera modules: computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality,…
H04N 7/142
Between two video terminals, e.g. videophone: constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
H04N 7/147
Between two video terminals, e.g. videophone: communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication,…
H04N 23/63
Control of cameras or camera modules: by using electronic viewfinders

Family

Application61/942,700Us provisional application · filed 21 Feb 2014

Application14/627,199Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 20 Feb 2015

Application15/876,453Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Jan 2018

US 9,881,403 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 30 Jan 2018

US 2020/0195840 A1Pre-grant publication · published 18 Jun 2020

US 10,594,929 B2Parent of this continuation

Application15/876,453Parent of this continuation-in-part

US 2015/0243062 A1Published application

US 2018/0146134 A1Published application

US 10,834,312 B2This patent

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Portable electronic device with a creative artworks picture application operating in response to beacons

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Portable electronic device with a creative artworks picture application operating in response to beacons

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Abstract

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