Mobile Image Location System with GPS and Map Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices lack effective systems to manage and utilize images captured with integrated cameras, particularly in conjunction with geographic location data and supplemental information, limiting their functionality beyond basic image storage and viewing.
Innovation Solution
An image location system in mobile devices that uses GPS or triangulation to associate images with geographic locations, stores this data, and provides display modes and search functions to manage and interact with images based on their location and supplemental information such as category, street address, and telephone number.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If mobile devices include integrated cameras and GPS receivers, then the device capabilities and functionality are improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the camera, GPS receiver, and image management system into an integrated mobile device. The camera component captures images, the GPS receiver determines geographic locations, and the image location system associates these data automatically, creating a unified functionality that leverages multiple components working together seamlessly.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device is designed to perform multiple functions: capturing images with the integrated camera, determining geographic locations via GPS or triangulation, storing images with location data, displaying images on a map, and searching for images based on location or supplemental information. This multi-functional approach maximizes the utility of each component.
2Ease of operation
If the system stores and manages images with geographic location data and supplemental information, then the information organization and retrieval capability is improved, but the data storage and processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically captures geographic location data and supplemental information at the moment each image is taken, storing all this data together with the image from the outset. This preliminary association eliminates the need for later manual organization and makes retrieval straightforward.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback mechanisms through the user interface, allowing users to view images in list or detail modes with associated location and supplemental information displayed. The search function also provides feedback by returning images that match location or information criteria, enabling efficient retrieval.
3Productivity
If the system provides multiple display modes and search functions, then the user interaction and information retrieval efficiency is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system offers dynamic display modes that can switch between list view and detail view, allowing users to adjust the interface based on their needs. The map display mode dynamically shows geographic locations, and the search function dynamically filters images based on location or supplemental information criteria, providing flexible and adaptive interaction.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to efficiently organize, display, and search images based on geographic location and associated data, enhancing the device's functionality and user experience by integrating image management with mapping and communication capabilities.
Implementation Method 1
The system may do so using a built-in GPS receiver
Implementation Method 2
using other methods, such as triangulation based on the mobile device's proximity to one or more mobile network base stations
Data Source
AI summary
A mobile communication device and a method for managing images, associated geographic location data, and associated supplemental information, in which geographic location data is generated based on a current location of the mobile communication device; a map corresponding to the generated geographic location data is displayed; a plurality of images and associated supplemental information corresponding to each image in a list mode are displayed in a first user interface, wherein the displayed associated supplemental information comprises description information and a street address; a selection of the plurality images, the associated description information, and the associated street address is received; the selected associated location information is displayed in a second user interface, wherein the second user interface comprises an editing mode; and the supplemental information is edited in the edit mode by receiving note information and the note information is associated with the selected associated description information.