Patent ID: 8600118

Claim:
A system for managing game animal scouting images, comprising: a game animal scouting camera configured to record and store images of game animals; and an image management device which includes and assigns to images at least one of solar-positioning information and lunar-phase information based at least partially on information relating to the dates at which the camera records images and camera locations when the images are taken, the image management device including: a memory device that stores images and the related information retrieved from the game animal scouting camera; multiple classification inputs corresponding to respective ones of multiple game animal characteristics, the multiple classification inputs allowing a user to classify each image as showing a game animal having one or more of the multiple game animal characteristics; a sorted database organizing the images according to the user-classified game animal characteristics of the respective images; the controller determining a predictive statement based at least in part on (a) the user-classified game animal characteristics of the respective images, (b) the at least one of solar-positioning information and Lunar-phase information assigned to the images, and (c) the camera location information assigned to the images and wherein the predictive statement conveys information relating to a likelihood of a user seeing game animals at some future time period at the same global position at which the images were recorded; and a display device for displaying the images and the predictive statement.