Patent ID: 7248285
Filing Date: 2007-07-24
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for automatically annotating a digital representation, comprising: an electronic capture device to capture the digital representation of a scene; a plurality of information tag devices, each of the information tag devices dispersed at various locations of scenes to store identification data for identifying the locations of the scenes; a tag-reader to receive the identification data from an information tag device; a database to store annotation provider information for each of the information tag devices; a communication device to communicate with the database, wherein when the identification data is transmitted to the database, a network address for an annotation provider associated with the information tag device is transmitted from the database to the communication device; and a program to be executed by the communication device, the program to enable communication with the annotation provider to obtain an annotation associated with the information tag device and to annotate the digital representation of the scene with the annotation.