Patent ID: 9571713
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An electronic photographic device that transmits an authorization signal at a time of capture of a photographic image that enables a user in receipt of the signal to authorize use of a likeness in the captured photographic image, the electronic photographic device comprising: image capture means for capturing the photographic image at a physical location after the electronic photographic device has been set to an authorization signal broadcast mode configured to broadcast the authorization signal, said photographic image comprising a likeness of a person located at the physical location, said image capture means being a camera; a controller for generating the authorization signal at the capture of the photographic image by the image capture means, the authorization signal identifying a website URL at which the captured photographic image and information relating to the photographic image can be accessed; and a transmitter for transmitting the authorization signal generated by the controller toward a field of view encompassing the physical location at which the photographic image comprising the likeness of the person is captured and at which the person is located, wherein the authorization signal is transmitted in such a way that persons located outside but proximate the field of view can receive the authorization signal if in possession of a hand-held receiver, wherein the electronic photographic device is configured to determine whether a photographer wants to operate the electronic photographic device in the authorization signal broadcast mode, and wherein the electronic photographic device is configured to be set to the authorization signal broadcast mode for subsequent directional transmission of the authorization signal in response to a determination by the electronic photographic device that the photographer wants to operate the electronic photographic device in the authorization signal broadcast mode and after hand-held devices with receivers configured to receive the authorization signal were activated in conjunction with the determination that the photographer wants to operate the electronic photographic device in the authorization signal broadcast mode.