GAMIFICATION AND COMPUTERIZATION OF ON-LINE PHOTO IDENTIFICATION

摘要

A computerized on-line photo identification game presented through a computer program provides a subject matter category and steps for registration of website visitors to become photo-submitting players or to become photo subject matter identifying photo identifying players who receive photos of specific subject matter within the subject matter category submitted by photo-submitting players and identify the subject matter shown in the photos by name, by matching the subject matter to stored text in the program database, or both, and in which the photo identifying players may be rated by factors including concurrence with the majority of photo identifying players in identification and in which they may also be rewarded.

主权项

1. A method, executed by a computer program, of generating information through interaction and competition among several photo identifying players and with a registered customer or player who has provided at least one photo, comprising the steps of:
a service providing the computer program; a customer registers to become a player thereby entering the competition of photo submission, photo identification and text writing; a player or the service providing a subject matter category related to the photo;
providing a plurality of photo identifying players;the player accessing the program on a computer;the customer becoming a player to gain access to the program and automatically being subscribed to a textmatch queue;the player generating at least one photo of a subject within the subject matter category;the player uploading to the program the at least one photo;the program making the at least one photo available for viewing;the players each retrieving the at least one photo;the several players viewing the at least one photo and identifying what is shown in the photo;the several players each matching the subject shown in the at least one photo to one preferred subject identification;the program updating the collection with the two leading matched texts associated with the photo names most selected by the several players and publishing it to the textmatch queue;the program notifying the photosubmitting player that the identification is complete and is available;and the photosubmitting player accessing the program and displaying the at least one identification.