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Granted Patent B2
US 9,519,355 · App. 13/840,120 · Granted Dec 13, 2016

Mobile device event control with digital images

Inventor: Derek A Devries (San Francisco, CA)
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Patent No.
US 9,519,355
App. No.
13/840,120
Granted
Dec 13, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes receiving a digital image from a mobile device. A first element of the digital image and a second element of the digital image is identified. The first element of the digital image includes a user-selected content. The second element includes a depiction of a user action. An event trigger identified by the first element and the second element is determined. The event trigger includes a mobile device operating system command. A mobile device command is generated according to the event trigger. The mobile device command is communicated to a mobile operating system.

Claims (16)

1. A server system for mobile device event control with digital images comprising:

a processor configured to execute instructions;

a memory containing instructions when executed on the processor, causes the processor to perform operations that: receiving a digital image from a mobile device;

identifying a first element of the digital image and a second element of the digital image, wherein the first element of the digital image comprises a user-selected content, and wherein the second element comprises a depiction of a user action;

determining an event trigger identified by the first element and the second element, wherein the event trigger comprises a mobile device operating system command, and wherein the mobile device operating system command comprises a command, to execute an image search with an online image search engine accessed by a web browser operating in the mobile device;

generating a mobile device command according to the event trigger;

communicating the mobile device command to a mobile operating system; decomposing the first element into a set of attributes with an object recognition functionality operating in at least one computer processor;

matching an attribute of the set of attributes with a term;

composing a search query of the image search with the term derived from the set of attribute of the first element;

projecting the digital image with a projecting device onto a flat surface;

displaying the digital image on a display of the mobile device,

wherein a user interface on the display of the mobile device enables the user to manipulate the digital image according to the user action, wherein the user action comprises multi-touch user gestures,

wherein the user interface on the display of the mobile device enables the user to assign a kinetic motion attribute to the digital image according to the multi-touch user gestures, and

wherein the kinetic motion attribute comprises a spinning of the digital image around a user designated axis.

2. The server system of claim 1 , wherein the server system comprises a graphics editing application available to the user via a web page dashboard.

3. The server system of claim 1 , wherein the user-selected content comprises a digital photograph of a physically published image.

Continuity (1)
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