Guided photography and video on a mobile device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11763377-B2
Application number	US-202217869652-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 20, 2022
Priority date	Oct 12, 2012
Publication date	Sep 19, 2023
Grant date	Sep 19, 2023

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 an 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 image data captured by a computing device on a display of the computing device;
displaying an overlay and instructions for aligning an item depicted in the image data with the overlay on the display of the computing device;
determining that the item depicted in the image data is not properly positioned in relation to the overlay;
displaying additional instructions on the display of the computing device for aligning the item depicted in the image data with the overlay in response to determining that the item depicted in the image data is not properly positioned in relation to the overlay; and
capturing an image of the item while the item is aligned with the overlay displayed on the display of the computing device.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the image data comprises a video and capturing the image of the item while the item is aligned with the overlay displayed on the display of the computing device comprises extracting the image of the item from the video.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the overlay comprises a wireframe.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instructions and the additional instructions are text instructions displayed on the display of the computing device.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the item depicted in the image data is not properly positioned in relation to the overlay comprises determining that the item is depicted at a position in the image data other than a position of the overlay, wherein the additional instructions specify a direction for moving one of the computing device or the item to properly position the item in relation to the overlay.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the additional instructions indicate that the computing device should be rotated to properly position the item in relation to the overlay.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the item depicted in the image data is not properly positioned in relation to the overlay comprises determining that a minimum lighting standard has not been achieved.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the item depicted in the image data is not properly positioned in relation to the overlay comprises determining that appropriate sharpness has not been achieved.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instructions for aligning the item depicted in the image data with the overlay on the display of the computing device include instructions to ensure proper lighting.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instructions for aligning the item depicted in the image data with the overlay on the display of the computing device include instructions to ensure proper sharpness.

11. A system 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, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
displaying image data captured by a computing device on a display of the computing device;
displaying an overlay and instructions for aligning an item depicted in the image data with the overlay on the display of the computing device;
determining that the item depicted in the image data is not properly positioned in relation to the overlay;
displaying additional instructions on the display of the computing device for aligning the item depicted in the image data with the overlay in response to determining that the item depicted in the image data is not properly positioned in relation to the overlay; and
causing the computing device to capture an image of the item while the item is aligned with the overlay displayed on the display of the computing device.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the image data comprises a video and capturing the image of the item while the item is aligned with the overlay displayed on the display of the computing device comprises extracting the image of the item from the video.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the overlay comprises a wireframe.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the instructions and the additional instructions are text instructions displayed on the display of the computing device.

15. The system of claim 11 , wherein determining that the item depicted in the image data is not properly positioned in relation to the overlay comprises determining that the item is depicted at a position in the image data other than a position of the overlay, wherein the additional instructions specify a direction for moving one of the computing device or the item to properly position the item in relation to the overlay.

16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the additional instructions indicate that the computing device should be rotated to properly position the item in relation to the overlay.

17. The system of claim 11 , wherein determining that the item depicted in the image data is not properly positioned in relation to the overlay comprises determining that a minimum lighting standard has not been achieved.

18. The system of claim 11 , wherein determining that the item depicted in the image data is not properly positioned in relation to the overlay comprises determining that appropriate sharpness has not been achieved.

19. The system of claim 11 , wherein the instructions for aligning the item depicted in the image data with the overlay on the display of the computing device include instructions to ensure proper lighting and instructions to ensure proper sharpness.

20. A mobile computing device comprising:
a display;
a camera;
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, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
displaying image data captured by the camera on the display;
displaying an overlay and instructions for aligning an item depicted in the image data with the overlay on the display;
determining that the item depicted in the image data is not properly positioned in relation to the overlay;
displaying additional instructions on the display for aligning the item depicted in the image data with the overlay in response to determining that the item depicted in the image data is not properly positioned in relation to the overlay; and
causing the camera to capture an image of the item while the item is aligned with the overlay displayed on the display.

Assignees

• Ebay Inc

Inventors

• Glasgow Dane

Classifications

• H04N23/80

  Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof · CPC title

• 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

• G06Q30/0601 Primary

  Electronic shopping [e-shopping] · CPC title

• H04N13/106

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