Associating external content with a digital image
AssigneeQuiro Holdings, Inc.
InventorAlfredo C. Issa
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Abstract
A method and system is provided for associating external content with a digital image. Aspects of the method and system include extracting metadata from the digital image; using the extracted metadata to query an online content server to retrieve content related to the digital image through at least one attribute of the extracted metadata; in response to receiving the content returned by the content server, associating the content with the digital image; and using the content when an operation is performed on the digital image.
Claims25
A method for associating external content with a digital image, comprising:
- obtaining the digital image from a first device;
- extracting GPS location and date metadata from the digital image, the date metadata comprising information recorded contemporaneously with the generation of the digital image;
- using the extracted date metadata to query an online content server to retrieve a song that was popular on the date identified by the date metadata, the online content server being a different device from the first device;
- in response to receiving the song returned by the online content server, associating the song with the digital image;
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- displaying the digital image and playing the song concurrently to a user.
A computing device, comprising:
- a memory for storing digital images, wherein at least a portion of the digital images include GPS location and date metadata;
- an image application stored in the memory;
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- a processor for executing the image application, wherein when executed, the image application is functional for:
- obtaining the digital images from a first device;
- extracting the GPS location and date metadata from at least one of the digital images, the date metadata comprising information recorded contemporaneously with the generation of the at least one digital image;
- using the date metadata to query an online content server to retrieve a song that was popular on the date identified by the date metadata, the online content server being a different device from the first device;
- in response to receiving the song returned by the online content server, associating the song with the at least one digital image;
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- displaying the at least one digital image and playing the song concurrently.
A computer-readable medium containing program instructions for associating external content with a digital image, the program instructions for:
- obtaining the digital image from a first device;
- extracting GPS location and date metadata from the digital image, the date metadata comprising information recorded contemporaneously with the generation of the digital image;
- using the extracted date metadata to query an online content server to retrieve a song that was popular on the date identified by the date metadata, the online content server being a different device from the first device;
- in response to receiving the song returned by the online content server, associating the song with the digital image;
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- displaying the digital image and playing the song concurrently to a user.
A method for associating external content with a digital image, comprising:
- obtaining, by a computer, a digital image comprising metadata and image data;
- extracting, by the computer, the metadata from the digital image, wherein the metadata comprises GPS location and date metadata, the date metadata identifying a date on which the image data was generated;
- obtaining, by the computer, a song that was popular on the date identified by the date metadata from a content server based on the date metadata;
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- displaying, by the computer, the image data and the content concurrently to a user via a user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.