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Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 18, 2014
Applicant:

Scenera Mobile Technologies, Llc, Raleigh, NC (US);

Inventor:

Munindar P. Singh, Cary, NC (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30265 (2013.01); G06F 17/30038 (2013.01); G06F 17/30247 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3253 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system is provided for automatically generating metadata for a digital image based on meteorological conditions. Aspects of the preferred embodiment include determining a plurality of meteorological conditions associated with a location of a subject of the digital image captured with a mobile image capture device even when the device is at a different location of the location of the subject of the digital image, the plurality of meteorological conditions including variations of the conditions over time by receiving indications of the conditions at a plurality of times including at least one of a time before the time of image capture, at the time of image capture, and after the time of image capture; aggregating the indications of the meteorological conditions into at least one meteorological descriptor indicating a trend of the conditions based on user-definable aggregation rules; and associating the descriptor with the digital image as metadata.


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