Patent ID: 8311278

Claim:
A system for automatically identifying a location of a subject in a digital image, comprising: a digital recorder for converting a scene, within a field of view of said digital recorder, into digital image data; an identification device having identification information associated therewith, said identification device being co-located with a pre-determined subject; an identification device detector, positioned in a pre-determined relationship to said digital recorder, to detect a position of the identification device; a processor operatively connected to the digital recorder and the identification device detector and a computer network, to determine if the position of the identification device is within the field of view of the digital recorder; said processor determining the position of the image of the predetermined subject within the digital image data associated with said identification device when the position of said identification device is within the field of view of said digital recorder; said processor adding identification metadata to the digital image when the position of said identification device is within the field of view of the digital recorder, the identification metadata data including the identification information associated with the identification device and the image position of the identification device.