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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2012
Jeremy Thomas Buch, Louisville, CO (US);
Charles Frankel, Denver, CO (US);
Cody Keawe Yancey, Golden, CO (US);
Jeremy Thomas Buch, Louisville, CO (US);
Charles Frankel, Denver, CO (US);
Cody Keawe Yancey, Golden, CO (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for identifying an area of interest comprising a desired object in imagery (e.g., so an image comprising the desired object may be altered in some manner). A determination can be made as to whether a capture event occurs within a proximity mask, where an object is not likely to be out of range if an image of the object is captured from within the proximity mask. For an image captured within the proximity mask, a determination can be made as to whether capture event imagery metadata for the image overlaps a footprint mask for the desired object. If so, the image may be regarded as comprising a discernible view of at least some of the desired object and is thus identified as an area of interest (e.g., that may be modified to accommodate privacy concerns, for example).