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Google patents method to map camera spots in shared event videos

Patent drawing
Patent drawing from the official filing.

This patent describes a system that finds videos of a specific event or place on a sharing platform. It then calculates where each video was filmed and displays the media alongside the location of the device that recorded it.

Why it mattersThis could help users see exactly where different people stood to capture a moment, offering a more complete spatial view of an event.

In the filing’s own words

A request for content associated with at least one of a real-world event or a geographic area is received. A set of media items each including content associated with the real-world event or the geographic area is identified of media items of the content sharing service. A location of a respective client device that generated the content is determined for each respective media item of the set of media items. The set of media items and, for each of the set of media items, an indication of the determined location of the respective client device that generated the content of the respective media item are provided for presentation to a user in accordance with the request for content.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method comprising: receiving a request for content associated with at least one of a real-world event or a geographic area; identifying, of a plurality of media items of a content sharing service, a set of media items each comprising content associated with the real-world event or the geographic area; determining, for each respective media item of the set of media items, a location of a respective client device that generated the content of the respective media item of the set of media items; and providing the set of media items and, for each of the set of media items, an indication of the determined location of the respective client device that generated the content of the respective media item for presentation to a user in accordance with the request for content.

Facts

Company
Google (Google LLC)
Official title
Determining multiple camera positions from multiple videos
Patent number
US12762717B2
Application number
18958294
Filed
Nov 25, 2024
Granted
Oct 13, 2026
Inventors
7
Claims
20

Classified under

G06T 7/246 Physics & computingG06T 7/73 Physics & computingH04N 17/002 Electricity & electronics
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