Picture Tagging: The Focus of Yahoo Patent Application
Because Bill Slawski and others (including Barry Schwartz) do such a great job of keeping all of us up to date with recently published and/or awarded patents, we’ve cut down on the number of patents and apps we post on ResourceShelf. However, from time to time, it’s always interesting to post one or two. Here’s one from Yahoo! that we just learned about. It’s a patent APPLICATION that was published (by law) in April. The original filing date was February 17, 2006. The application is for a patent (not yet awarded) for the tagging of pictures.
From the abstract:
A system and method for tagging discrete locations and/or sections within a pre-existing media file with images without modifying the media file are disclosed. The system includes a rendering device that receives user tag selections and creates information that can be used when rendering the media file in the future. When a tagged media file is rendered by a device capable of interpreting the information, the images are concurrently displayed on the interface of the rendering device. The discrete locations and/or sections can be associated with one or more user-selected image files. In an embodiment, the system and method can be performed without modifying the media file itself and thus no derivative work is created.
This patent app incorporates patent app # 60/722,600, filed Sep. 30, 2005.