Determining capture instructions for drone photography based on information received from a social network
OwnerHugh Blake Svendseninventor
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Abstract
Methods, Systems, and Devices are disclosed for using drone imaging to capture images at events. Capture instructions are provided to a drone device to aid in image capture. The capture instructions may include factors-of-interest. The factors-of-interest may include social graph information received from a social network and used to determine subject faces to target for image capture by the drone device. The factors-of-interest may also include current geographical location information of one or more friends identified in the social graph. This information may also be used to locate subjects for image capture. The social graph information may also be used to distribute any images captured to subjects appearing in those images.
Claims23
A server device comprising:
- a network interface operable to:
- couple the server device to a user device and a drone device over a network;
- and a processor and a memory coupled to the network interface and operable to:
- receive, from the user device, credentials enabling the server device to access social graph information from a social network server, the social graph information including friend links and corresponding geographic locations;
- determine, from the social graph information, capture instructions identifying one or more faces corresponding to one or more social network users identified in the social graph information;
- send, to the drone device, the capture instructions;
- receive, from the drone device, an image captured by the drone device based on the capture instructions;
- and
- send, to the user device, the image.
A server device comprising:
- a network interface operable to:
- couple the server device to a user device and a drone device over a network;
- and a processor and a memory coupled to the network interface and operable to:
- receive, from the user device, credentials enabling the server device to access social graph information from a social network server, the social graph information including friend links and corresponding geographic locations;
- determine, from the social graph information, capture instructions identifying one or more subject faces corresponding to one or more social network users identified in the social graph information;
- send, to the drone device, the capture instructions;
- receive, from the drone device, an image captured by the drone device, the one or more subject faces appearing in the image;
- and
- send, to the user device, the image.
A method of operating a server device comprising:
- receiving, from a user device, credentials enabling the server device to access social graph information from a social network server, the social graph information including friend links and corresponding geographic locations;
- determining, from the social graph information, capture instructions identifying one or more subject faces corresponding to one or more social network users identified in the social graph information;
- sending, to a drone device, the capture instructions;
- receiving, from the drone device, an image captured by the drone device, the one or more subject faces appearing in the image;
- and
- sending, to the user device, the image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.