Linking captured images using short range communications
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsRichard Harper, Philip Gosset, Richard M. Banks
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus for linking captured images using short range communications or a personal area network are described. In an embodiment, an image capture device is described which detects devices in proximity to the device and stores data identifying the devices and the times when they were in proximity. In another embodiment, a computing-based device is described which uses the data stored by an image capture device to identify sequences of images which were captured by a group of devices in proximity to each other and to present these sequences to a viewer concurrently and in temporal alignment.
Claims20
An image capture device comprising:
- an image capture module arranged to capture images and to determine a capture time for each captured image;
- a sensor arranged to detect devices in proximity to the image capture device and generate proximity data;
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- a store for storing captured images, capture times and proximity data.
One or more tangible device-readable media with device-executable instructions for performing steps comprising:
- storing a capture time associated with each captured image;
- detecting devices in proximity to an image capture device;
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- storing an identifier for each detected device and a time of detection.
One or more tangible device-readable media with device-executable instructions for performing steps comprising:
- receiving a plurality of images and associated data from a plurality of image capture devices, wherein the associated data comprises a capture time for each image;
- storing the data;
- identifying a plurality of sequences of images captured by a set of image capture devices whilst in proximity based on the associated data;
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- presenting the plurality of sequences of images concurrently and in temporal alignment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.