Determining images of interest based on a geographical location
AssigneeIkorongo Technology, LLC
InventorHugh Blake Svendsen
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices are described for identifying images which may be of interest to a user based on their current geographic location. In some embodiments, a check is first performed to determine if the current geographic location is a location-of-interest. Images are searched that are in geographical proximity to the current geographic location of the user to identify images-of-interest. The images-of-interest may be designated in part based on actions taken by subjects having had interactions with the images. The user is notified based on the discovery of one or more images-of-interest. The one or more images-of-interest may be presented to the user through the use of map overlays and/or augmented reality techniques.
Claims22
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program code that, when executed by a processor of a device, render the device operable to perform the steps of:
- sending, to a server device, a target geographical location;
- and
- receiving, from the server device, information identifying an image-of-interest, the image-of-interest captured in geographical proximity to the target geographical location and identified based on subject affinities between a user of the device and other users of other devices, the subject affinities determined based on social graph information and analysis of a plurality of images, the social graph information and the plurality of images both associated with a user account of the user.
A device comprising:
- a communication interface operable to:
- couple the device to a server device;
- and
- a processor and memory associated with the communication interface and operable to:
- send, to the server device, a target geographical location;
- and
- receive, from the server device, information identifying an image-of-interest, the image-of-interest captured in geographical proximity to the target geographical location and identified based on subject affinities between a user of the device and other users of other devices, the subject affinities determined based on social graph information and analysis of a plurality of images, the social graph information and the plurality of images both associated with a user account of the user.
A method of operating a device comprising:
- sending, to a server device, a target geographical location;
- and
- receiving, from the server device, information identifying an image-of-interest, the image-of-interest captured in geographical proximity to the target geographical location and identified based on subject affinities between a user of the device and other users of other devices, the subject affinities determined based on social graph information and analysis of a plurality of images, the social graph information and the plurality of images both associated with a user account of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.