Systems and methods to autonomously add geolocation information to media objects

Abstract

Systems and methods to generate clusters of media objects (e.g., photos) that are associated with geolocation information (e.g., GPS data, folder name, file name, other metadata) and without geolocation information so that the media objects in a media library without geolocation information can be given location data in an automated user approved system. An approval system of visual overlays on a graphical user interface (GUI) lets users approve the proposed geolocation clusters and approve or reject the geolocation proposals individually or as a group. The resulting approved clusters may then be tagged with geolocation information (e.g., GPS coordinates, city, state, country) and may then be automatically organized in a number of ways, including but not limited to, by location, on a calendar, on a map, etc.

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BACKGROUNDTechnical Field[0001]The present disclosure generally relates to replication, synchronization, grouping and / or presentation of data objects, such as photos, across multiple processor-based devices.Description of the Related Art[0002]End users often have data collections (e.g., photos, videos, music, documents) that are spread across multiple processor-based devices (e.g., phones, personal computers, laptops, gaming consoles, tablet devices, digital cameras, cloud storage, etc.) spanning multiple networks. As computing devices become more prevalent and widely used among the general population, the amount of data generated and utilized by such devices has rapidly increased.[0003]Modern devices, while more powerful than ever, continue to be challenged in terms of their ability to store all of the information that users want on all of their various devices. For instance, digital photography has recently become extremely popular, and as a result, digital pictures may cause many...

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Benefits of technology

The patent describes a method for adding geolocation information to a media library by grouping media objects into clusters based on their capture location. The method involves storing a media library with a plurality of media objects, including at least one geotagged media object and at least one non-geotagged media object. The non-geotagged media objects are then logically associated with geolocation information based on their capture location. The method may also involve presenting the non-geotagged media objects with the geolocation information through a user interface. The technical effect of this patent is to provide a more efficient and effective way of adding geolocation information to media objects.

Problems solved by technology

Modern devices, while more powerful than ever, continue to be challenged in terms of their ability to store all of the information that users want on all of their various devices.

For instance, digital photography has recently become extremely popular, and as a result, digital pictures may cause many devices to run into storage limits.

Further, this storage problem is only getting worse because most portable devices are using more expensive and smaller storage solid-state memory devices, as opposed to magnetic storage devices.

However, in an implementation of network-based backup and / or other solutions that can be utilized to provide physically remote locations for storing backup data, costs and complexity associated with transmission and restoration of user data between a user machine and a remote storage location can substantially limit the usefulness of a backup system.

However, storing all of a user's content in a remote storage can be prohibitively expensive (and bandwidth consuming) for content such as digital photos and videos.

Loss of data can result from electrical outages, device damage or theft, natural or human caused disasters such as floods, tornadoes, fires, and other such events that can cause physical loss of processor-based devices and / or loss of the data stored thereon.

Current systems either require the user to perform a great deal of manual work or require all of the content to be stored in the cloud, which is very expensive and impractical for many users.

Organizing, viewing or otherwise consuming or manipulating such objects can quickly become time consuming and overwhelming tasks.

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