Patent ID: 8711247

Claim:
A method for capturing one or more images that includes a lightning strike using an image capturing device operable in a lightning capture mode, the method being performed by one or more processors and comprising: receiving lightning information from a remote resource, the lightning information pertaining to one or more potential lightning strikes that are to occur near a location of the image capturing device; generating a directional feature on a display of the image capturing device to prompt a user to point the image capturing device in a specified direction corresponding to the one or more potential lightning strikes; automatically capturing a plurality of images during a period of time through a lens of the image capturing device; storing the plurality of images in a buffer of the image capturing device; processing each of the plurality of images to detect a presence of lightning within each image, wherein each image is processed based, at least in part, on a comparison between two or more consecutively captured images; in response to processing each of the plurality of images, deleting images from the buffer that are determined to not include the presence of lightning; and in response to processing each of the plurality of images, storing images in a memory resource of the image capturing device that are determined to include the presence of lightning.