Siri Photo Search System Detailed in New Apple Patent

[Tech198]

May as well....

Siri can do just about everything you can throw at it.. (don't quote me on that)..

Still,, photo searching would be good.......

 

[aiom]

This reminds me of Google Googles (search an existing photo to see if it matches anything [bar code, landmark, product])

And Google Plus photo search (search your library for specific photos that Google recognizes en masse)
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/29/...oved-photo-backup-search-and-editing-features

 

[AppleScruff1]

Next year: "Siri - create an album of all photos I took of Jane last year."

Five years from now: "Siri - find out everything about the blonde woman in the red dress behind Jane in this photo."

I'm sorry, I don't understand what that means. But I could search the web for it.

 

[Frostie-Flake]

Hummmm, interesting. This looks like some prior art, myself and a co-developer worked on in 1996. More expansive use of linguistic elements and multi lingual components in our development. Use in both photography and film production. Many of the same uses and purposes. Some elements provided cross lingual support identifying common language elements among multiple languages.

 

[Unfructskell]

I'm against the mere existence of the patent system, but to me this looks like a particularly bad patent.

It's basically photo-tagging, except with Siri.

Apple creates many wonderful things, they don't need government granted monopolies to get their business. It's a bad system overall and a waste of potential for Apple to be playing this patent game.

@Frostie-Flake if you have proof of prior art (and I'm sure there is some) you should look into writing about it here: http://patents.stackexchange.com/