Guided photography and video on a mobile device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10750075-B2
Application number	US-201816172345-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 26, 2018
Priority date	Oct 12, 2012
Publication date	Aug 18, 2020
Grant date	Aug 18, 2020

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.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
displaying, in real time and on a display of a mobile computing device, an image to be captured by an application having image capture capabilities;
receiving, on the display of the mobile computing device, a first input that causes an image recognition process to be executed on the image;
enabling use of a plurality of overlays with the application, wherein at least one of the plurality of overlays is a wireframe overlay that is placed over at least a portion of the image; and
receiving, on the display of the mobile computing device, a second input that causes the image to be captured by the application.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireframe overlay is aligned with an angle of the image.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising associating received text with the image when the image has been captured by the application.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the received text provides information about the image.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second input causes a video to be captured.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein an angle of the wireframe overlay is altered in real time.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireframe overlay is a generic overlay that has a generic shape associated with an item category.

8. A computing device, comprising:
at least one processor; and
a memory coupled to the at least one processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform a method, comprising:
receiving, on a display of the computing device, a first input that launches an image capture application;
displaying, on the display of the computing device, an image to be captured by the image capture application;
receiving, on the display of the computing device, a second input that causes an image recognition process to be executed on the image;
enabling use of a plurality of overlays associated with the image capture application, wherein the plurality of overlays include a wireframe overlay that is placed over a portion of the image; and
receiving, on the display of the computing device, a third input that causes the image capture application to capture the image.

9. The computing device of claim 8 , wherein the wireframe overlay is aligned with an angle of the image.

10. The computing device of claim 8 , further comprising instructions for associating received text with the image once the image has been captured by the image capture application.

11. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the received text provides information about the image.

12. The computing device of claim 8 , wherein the third input causes a video to be captured.

13. The computing device of claim 8 , wherein an angle of the wireframe overlay is altered in real time.

14. The computing device of claim 8 , wherein the wireframe overlay has a generic shape associated with an item category.

15. A method, comprising:
launching an image capture application on a computing device;
displaying, in the image capture application, an image to be captured;
performing an image recognition process on the image;
enabling use of a plurality of overlays with the image capture application, wherein at least one of the plurality of overlays is a wireframe overlay that is placed over a portion of the image; and
receiving input that captures the image.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising associating received text with the image once the image has been captured.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the received text provides information about the image.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the input causes a video to be captured.

19. The method of claim 15 , wherein an angle of the wireframe overlay is altered in real time.

20. The method of claim 15 , wherein the wireframe overlay has a generic shape associated with an item category.

Assignees

• Ebay Inc

Inventors

• Glasgow Dane

Classifications

• H04N23/64

  Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image · CPC title

• G06Q30/0643 Primary

  graphically representing goods, e.g. 3D product representation · CPC title

• H04N23/80

  Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof · CPC title

• H04N13/106

  Processing image signals (for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597) · CPC title

• G06Q30/0601 Primary

  Electronic shopping [e-shopping] · CPC title