Question for software engineers

[Riprorin]

Can anyone tell me how hard it would be to write the code for this invention?

Method for randomly combining images with annotations

 

[Ameesh]

doesnt seem bad at all, the wording seems purposly vauge and incomprehensible. what i get out of the patent description is that he has a method for looking up releavent images and creating new images from the combination of random annotaions and the previous images.

seems straightforward. you would need to store some metadat about the image before hand, maybe have the image stored as xml and then be able to search over it (maybe using xquery or xpath)

on a scale of 1-10(hard)


Difficulty : 4
Time Needed : 6

 

[Riprorin]

Ameesh, I think it's a little more complicated than it appears from the abstract. You have to dig down into the claims a bit.

Here's how it might work.

The user responds to a query which includes questions like name, sex, age, hobbies, etc.

Based on the user input, an image grouping and annotaion grouping is slected. Say for example, the user selects sport under hobbies and then further selects basketball. A futher slection could be favorite team.

The image grouping would then be the Knicks, for example, and the annotation grouping would relate to basketball.

The user than inputs his image. The image may be imported via a variety of means.

The software then creates a unique personalized image which is a combination of an annotation, a predefined image, and the user inputed image. The composite image is random within the groupings determined by the query.

For example the composite image could contain Alan Huston's body with the users head superimposed and a caption such as "great shot, user's name, nothing but net" or something like that.

This is a corny example, but hopefully you get the idea.

If the user doesn't like the composite image, he can run the random generator again and again until he get's an image he likes.

The advantage is that outcome has an element of surprise with minimal user intervention.