Patent ID: 9619851
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G06Q,H04N

Claim:
1. A mobile system for collecting photographic information of evidentiary items from locations that are remote from a central computer system, comprising: a camera module, said camera module taking a set of evidentiary photographs of the evidentiary items; an input device comprising an alphanumeric entry and a code scanner, wherein said alphanumeric entry receives location information documenting a set of locations corresponding with said set of evidentiary photographs, and wherein said code scanner reads a set of unique evidence identifiers from a plurality of tags attached to the evidentiary items; a computer processor operatively communicating with said camera module and said input device, wherein a plurality of evidence entries corresponding with the evidentiary items are entered into said computer processor, said evidence entries comprising said set of evidentiary photographs received from said camera module and said set of locations and said unique evidence identifiers received from said input device; a memory in operative communication with said computer processor, wherein said evidence entries are stored in said memory with a set of correlations between said set of evidentiary photographs, said set of locations and said unique evidence identifiers; a communications module in networked communication with the central computer system and in local communication with said computer processor, wherein said communications module uploads said evidence entries and said set of correlations from said memory to the central computer system; and a display screen comprising an evidence picture field for displaying at least one of said photographs and a location field for displaying at least one of said locations, wherein said display screen further comprises a selection option for an establishing shot picture from said set of evidentiary photographs, wherein said set of correlations links said establishing shot picture to a location corresponding with at least one of said evidentiary photographs, and wherein said computer processor defines said location as a reference position for said establishing shot relative to other locations in said set of locations and determines a plurality of location references between said establishing shot picture and said other photographs in said set of photographs.