Patent ID: 11972588
Assignee: SHUTTERFLY, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A photographic system comprising:
a fiducial marking device that includes a fiducial light source configured to emit collimated light toward a subject;
a camera configured to:
capture a background-illuminated image of the subject;
capture a subject-illuminated image of the subject; and
capture a fiducially marked image of a subject, the fiducially marked image including a fiducial marker formed on the subject from the collimated light; and

a computing device communicatively coupled to the camera and comprising:
at least one processor; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computing device to:
receive the background-illuminated image, the subject illuminated image, and the fiducially marked image captured by the camera; and
generate a photography product using the background-illuminated image, the subject-illuminated image, and values determined from a location of the fiducial marker in the fiducially marked image, the values including a pixel density of the fiducially marked image and a reference height of the subject.