Producing reinforced photographic product obtained from known picture field image

Abstract

A photographic system is described for producing enhanced products from pictures of one or more known picture sites situated at predetermined locations and representing content of interest to a photographer. The system includes (a) a database containing content pertaining to the picture sites; (b) a camera for capturing images of the picture sites; (c) a processor for relating the captured images to the locations of picture sites, thereby identifying locations of the images, where the processor uses the locations of the images to access selected content in the database pertaining to the picture sites; and (d) a product generator for generating enhanced image products. In one embodiment, the data base contains stock images pertaining to the picture sites and the product generator combines the stock images pertaining to the content of the picture sites with the captured images of the picture sites to generate a new image product.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to the field of photography, and more particularly to a photography system capable of acquiring digital data related to the content of photographs taken at known picture sites. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method of utilizing acquired data to produce enhanced photographic products from images acquired of such scenes. Background technique [0002] When a photographer, especially an amateur or consumer photographer, shoots with a conventional film or digital camera while visiting a known (or designated) attraction, such as in a theme park Or predetermined good-looking picture scenes of national parks, it is expected to recognize and automatically enhance these images in order to produce souvenirs of visits (photo albums, interactive CDs or DVDs, etc.). The key elements are: knowing the location of the picture scene where the client has captured the image and having content information abou...

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[0010] The stated disadvantage of these systems is information overload and the processing required, i.e., the amount of information may exceed that of trying to gather information related to a particular event (say, a visit to a theme park or a visit to an attraction in the Tujia park system) The processing power of the recorded temporary user

Moreover, the processing involved in producing enhanced photographic artifacts would be a challenge to the average client's ability (as well as time and interest)

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