SYSTEM FOR LOCATING NEARBY PICTURE HOTSPOTS

摘要

Portable communication devices transmit digital images and their location information to a central server. If a particular location is often photographed it can be designated as a hot spot. Thereafter, if a communication device is currently transmitting from within a vicinity of the hot spot, based on the location data received from the communication device, notification data can be transmitted to the communication device for notifying the user of the hot spot. The notification data can include directional information for the user to access on the communication device for enabling the user to find the hot spot.

主权项

1. A photograph management server comprising:
a memory configured to store image metadata; and a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to:
identify, based at least in part on the stored image metadata, a collection of images, wherein the processor excludes images without associated geographical metadata and images that were captured prior to a given date from the collection of images;for each image in the collection of images, analyze the geographical metadata to identify other images that were captured within a first distance of a geographic location at which the image was captured;determine, based on the analysis, a first number of images taken within the first distance of the geographic location; anddetermine that the geographic location is a hot spot location responsive to a determination that the first number of images taken within the first distance exceeds a threshold value.