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US 8,803,912 B1Granted
Systems and methods related to an interactive representative reality
OwnerKenneth Peyton Foutsinventor
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus related to the creation and maintenance of an interactive and explorable representative reality. The interactive representative reality may be compiled from a plurality of geotagged media from a plurality of individual sources. Similarly geotagged images of the geotagged media may be stitched together to form portions of the representative reality. Portions of the representative reality may be layerable spatially and/or temporally. The apparatus and methods disclosed herein provide for recognition of objects within the geotagged images and link the images to one or more related items.
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A computer implemented method of creating an interactive representative reality system comprising:
- receiving, utilizing one or more processors, a plurality of media from a plurality of individual sources, said media including a plurality of images;
- compiling, utilizing said one or more processors, a plurality of geographically similar images of said images, individually resizing one or more of said geographically similar images, and stitching said geographically similar images to one another to thereby form a portion of a representative reality;
- wherein said portion of said representative reality is temporally layerable;
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- wherein said portion of said representative reality includes a plurality of singular objects each comprised of images from unique of said individual sources taken on unique dates;
- analyzing, utilizing said one or more processors, at least said geographically similar images utilized to create said portion of said representative reality for the presence of recognizable objects therein;
- linking, utilizing said one or more processors, at least some of said recognizable objects of said portion of said representative reality to at least one related item;
- enabling, utilizing said one or more processors, a user to replace at least some of said portion of said representative reality with a plurality of temporally distinct said geographically similar images not utilized to create said portion of said representative reality;
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- making, utilizing said one or more processors, at least some of said recognizable objects interactive recognizable objects within said portion of said representative reality, wherein said interactive recognizable objects are actuable and upon actuation by a user display information relative to said at least one related item.
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A computer implemented method of creating an interactive representative reality system comprising:
- receiving, utilizing one or more processors, a plurality of media from a plurality of individual sources, said media including a plurality of images;
- compiling, utilizing one or more processors, a plurality of geographically similar images of said images, individually resizing one or more of said geographically similar images, and stitching said geographically similar images to one another to thereby form a portion of a representative reality;
- wherein said portion of said representative reality is temporally layerable and includes a plurality of interchangeable time periods;
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- wherein said portion of said representative reality includes a plurality of singular objects;
- analyzing, utilizing one or more processors, at least said geographically similar images utilized to create said portion of said representative reality for the presence of recognizable objects of said singular objects therein;
- linking, utilizing one or more processors, at least some of said recognizable objects of said portion of said representative reality to at least one related item;
- linking, utilizing one or more processors, at least some of said recognizable objects of said portion of said representative reality with geographic data from said geographically similar images in which they are contained;
- wherein linked of at least some of said recognizable objects are otherwise non-geographically indexed;
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- linking, utilizing one or more processors, at least some of said recognizable objects of said portion of said representative reality with geographical data from other non-geographically similar images in which they are also contained.
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A computer-executable program tangibly embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and adapted to be executed by a processor to perform a method for creating an interactive representative reality, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of media from a plurality of individual sources, said media including a plurality of images;
- compiling a plurality of geographically similar images of said images, individually resizing one or more of said geographically similar images, and stitching said geographically similar images to one another to thereby form a portion of a representative reality;
- wherein said portion of said representative reality is at least one of spatially layerable and temporally layerable;
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- wherein said portion of said representative reality includes a plurality of singular objects each comprised of images from unique of said individual sources taken on unique dates;
- analyzing at least said geographically similar images utilized to create said portion of said representative reality for the presence of recognizable objects therein;
- linking at least some of said recognizable objects of said portion of said representative reality to at least one related item;
- enabling a user to replace at least some of said portion of said representative reality with a plurality of temporally distinct said geographically similar images not utilized to create said portion of said representative reality;
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- making at least some of said recognizable objects interactive recognizable objects within said portion of said representative reality, wherein said interactive recognizable objects are actuable and upon actuation by a user display information relative to said at least one related item.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.