Guided photography and video on a mobile device
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorDane Glasgow
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Abstract
In an example embodiment, an item listing process is run in an item listing application. Upon reaching a specified point in the item listing process, a camera application on the user device is triggered (or the camera directly accessed by the item listing application) to enable a user to capture images using the camera, wherein the triggering includes providing a wireframe overlay informing the user as to an angle at which to capture images from the camera.
Claims21
(canceled)
A system comprising:
- a first user device including:
- a first application configured to:
- receive data representing an indication that a user intends to photograph an object;
- determine a category for the object;
- use the category for the object to retrieve a script corresponding to the category from a plurality of possible scripts;
- access an account stored for the user in a database to obtain a listing of registered devices for the user;
- and
- trigger a camera application on one of the registered devices for the user to execute the script, causing the camera application to present instructions to the user as to how to capture images appropriate to the category using the one of the registered devices.
A method comprising:
- receiving data representing an indication that a user intends to photograph an object;
- determining a category for the object;
- using the category for the object to retrieve a script corresponding to the category from a plurality of possible scripts;
- accessing an account stored for the user in a database to obtain a listing of registered devices for the user;
- and
- triggering a camera application on one of the registered devices for the user to execute the script, causing the camera application to present instructions to the user as to how to capture images appropriate to the category using the one of the registered devices.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having instruction data to cause a machine to execute a method to perform operations comprising:
- receiving data representing an indication that a user intends to photograph an object;
- determining a category for the object;
- using the category for the object to retrieve a script corresponding to the category from a plurality of possible scripts;
- accessing an account stored for the user in a database to obtain a listing of registered devices for the user;
- and
- triggering a camera application on one of the registered devices for the user to execute the script, causing the camera application to present instructions to the user as to how to capture images appropriate to the category using the one of the registered devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.