Methods and Systems for Viewing an Associated Location of an Image

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016334969-A1
Application number	US-201514923306-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 26, 2015
Priority date	May 11, 2015
Publication date	Nov 17, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

At an electronic device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, an image and a location affordance associated with the image are concurrently displayed. The image has an associated location and corresponds to a source media item that was generated at the associated location. A selection of the location affordance is detected. In response to detecting selection of the location affordance, a map showing the associated location of the image is displayed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method, comprising:
at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors:
concurrently displaying an image and a location affordance associated with the image, wherein the image has an associated location, and wherein the image corresponds to a source media item that was generated at the associated location;
detecting selection of the location affordance; and
in response to detecting selection of the location affordance, displaying a map showing the associated location of the image.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the map comprises showing a location marker on the map at the associated location.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the location affordance is overlaid on the image.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the image is a picture.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the image is a graphic.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the image is a video.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising ceasing display of the image in response to detecting selection of the location affordance.

8 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
detecting a user input while displaying the map; and in response to detecting the user input:
ceasing display of the map; and
displaying the image.

9 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising, in response to detecting the user input, concurrently displaying the location affordance and the image;
wherein the user input comprises a selection of an affordance distinct from the location affordance.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:
concurrently displaying the image and the location affordance comprises concurrently displaying the image and the location affordance within a region of a display area; and displaying the map comprises displaying the map within the region of the display area.

11 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying a content item, wherein the content item includes the image and the location affordance.

12 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising, in response to detecting selection of the location affordance, accessing metadata corresponding to the associated location, wherein the metadata is embedded in the content item;
wherein displaying the map comprises using the metadata to access the map.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the metadata is contained within an image file of the image.

14 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the metadata comprises a Uniform Resource Locator.

15 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising, in response to detecting selection of the location affordance, accessing metadata corresponding to the associated location, wherein the metadata is contained within an image file of the image;
wherein displaying the map comprises using the metadata to access the map.

16 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:
concurrently displaying the image and the location affordance is performed within an application running on the electronic device; and displaying the map in response to detecting selection of the location affordance is performed within the application.

17 . An electronic device, comprising:
one or more processors; and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for: concurrently displaying an image and a location affordance associated with the image, wherein the image has an associated location, and wherein the image corresponds to a source media item that was generated at the associated location; detecting selection of the location affordance; and in response to detecting selection of the location affordance, displaying a map showing the associated location of the image.

18 . The electronic device of claim 17 , wherein displaying the map comprises showing a location marker on the map at the associated location.

19 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs for execution by one or more processors of an electronic device, the one or more programs including instructions for:
concurrently displaying an image and a location affordance associated with the image, wherein the image has an associated location, and wherein the image corresponds to a source media item that was generated at the associated location; detecting selection of the location affordance; and in response to detecting selection of the location affordance, displaying a map showing the associated location of the image.

20 . The computer-readable storage medium of claim 19 , wherein displaying the map comprises showing a location marker on the map at the associated location.

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Reckhow Michael Waldman
• Matas Michael James

Classifications

• H04N1/32128

  attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image (for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144) · CPC title

• H04N2201/3273

  Display · CPC title

• G06F16/50

  of still image data · CPC title

• H04N2201/3253

  Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data · CPC title

• G06Q10/40 Primary

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title