Capturing and publishing product imagery
AssigneeZappos IP, Inc.
InventorJason R. Howlett
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Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for capturing item imagery and generating corresponding content pages. A plurality of images is captured from an image capture apparatus that includes a plurality of image capture devices positioned at various angles relative to an item. The images are associated with an item identifier and/or image identifier. A content page based on a page template is then generated that includes references to at least a subset of the images.
Claims20
A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying at least one program executable in at least one computing device, the at least one program having instructions that perform a method comprising:
- initiating, by the at least one computing device, capture of a plurality of images of an item in an image capture apparatus;
- retrieving, by the at least one computing device, the plurality of images from at least one image capture device of the image capture apparatus;
- associating, by the at least one computing device, the plurality of images with an item identifier, wherein the item identifier uniquely identifies the item with respect to other items;
- associating, by the at least one computing device, the plurality of images with an image identifier, the image identifier identifying a respective view associated with a respective one of the plurality of images;
- retrieving, by the at least one computing device, a page template associated with a content page;
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- generating, by the at least one computing device, the content page from the page template, the content page including a plurality of references to at least a subset of the plurality of images, the plurality of references facilitating retrieval of the at least a subset of the plurality of images by a client.
A system, comprising:
- at least one computing device;
- and
- a network page generation application executable in the at least one computing device, the network page generation application causing the at least one computing device to perform a method comprising:
- obtaining, by the at least one computing device, a plurality of images of an item from an image capture apparatus;
- associating, by the at least one computing device, the plurality of images with an item identifier;
- designating, by the at least one computing device, an image identifier to each of the plurality of images;
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- generating, by the at least one computing device, a content page associated with an item corresponding to the item identifier, the content page based upon a page template comprising at least one reference to at least one of the plurality of images.
A method, comprising:
- initiating, in at least one computing device, capture of a plurality of images of an item by a plurality of image capture devices;
- designating, in the at least one computing device, an image identifier to each of the plurality of images;
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- generating, in the at least one computing device, a page template associated with an item, the page template corresponding to a product detail page and comprising a plurality of references, each of the references corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.