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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2010
Alexander David Wallace, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tim Cherna, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric Hanson, Emeryville, CA (US);
Nikhil Bhatt, Cupertino, CA (US);
Alexander David Wallace, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tim Cherna, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric Hanson, Emeryville, CA (US);
Nikhil Bhatt, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus are presented for associating a point of interest with a captured image. In one aspect, metadata associated with a digital image can be accessed, the metadata identifying an image capture location. Further, a depth of field corresponding to the digital image can be determined and one or more points of interest can be identified that are located within the determined depth of field. Additionally, one of the one or more identified points of interest can be selected as an image subject and the metadata associated with the digital image can be edited to include data identifying the selected point of interest.