Target-Based Photo Sharing with Usage Policy Enforcement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often face challenges in capturing high-quality photographs of targets, such as football players or cars, due to obstructed views or distance, and existing technologies lack efficient methods for sharing such photographs based on specific targets with appropriate usage permissions.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for sharing photographs that involve receiving metadata-rich images from users, identifying targets, and storing them in a database, allowing requesters to access images of specific targets while adhering to usage policies, using a cloud computing environment for efficient storage and retrieval.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users take photographs from their current location, then the photographing process is simple and quick, but the photograph quality may be poor due to obstructed views or distance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud-based photograph sharing system as an intermediary between photographers and requesters. The system receives photographs from multiple users, stores them in a database with metadata tagging, and enables retrieval of high-quality photographs of specific targets without requiring the requester to be physically present at the event location.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system stores all photographs from all users, then the availability of target photographs is maximized, but the data storage and management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the photograph data by organizing it in a database with metadata tags that identify specific targets (e.g., football players, horses, cars). This segmentation allows the system to store large volumes of photographs while enabling efficient retrieval of specific target images without managing all data as a single undifferentiated collection.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud-based system acts as an intermediary that handles the complexity of data storage and management, shielding end users from these complexities. The system receives, stores, and manages photographs with metadata automatically, allowing users to simply request photographs of specific targets without dealing with data management issues.
3Ease of operation
If the system provides unrestricted access to all photographs, then the accessibility is maximized, but the usage rights and user policies are violated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system checks usage policies associated with each photograph before granting access. When a requester asks for a photograph, the system retrieves the image and its associated usage policy, then determines whether the requested use is permitted before providing the photograph to the requester.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems and computer program products for sharing of photographs based on targets depicted in the photographs are provided. Aspects include receiving photographs of an event from one or more users, wherein each of the photographs include metadata related to the photograph and a usage policy for the photograph, identifying one or more targets depicted in the photographs based at least in part on the metadata and storing the photographs in a database. Aspects also include receiving an access request for photographs that include a first target from a requestor, wherein the access request includes an indication of the desired use, identifying one or more photographs in the database that depict the first target and which permit the desired use and providing the one or more photographs to the requester.