Patent Document ID: 8189925
Application ID: 12478569
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of utilizing a computing device having a processor and computer-readable memory to associate a known geographic location with a known identity, the method comprising: matching one or more points of interest defined by feature vectors from a first image with one or more points of interest defined by feature vectors from a second image to result in a first set of matched points of interest, wherein two or more matching iterations are performed, and wherein the number of matching iterations is determined based on a predefined orientation increment; identifying one or more points of interest that are outliers in the first set of matched points of interest; removing the outliers from the first set of matched points of interest to result in a second set of matched points of interest; augmenting each feature vector from the first image that is associated with a point of interest included with the second set of matched points of interest, wherein the augmenting of the feature vector includes adding a dimensional location associated with a point of interest from the second image to which the feature vector is matched; augmenting each feature vector from the second image that is associated with a point of interest included with the second set of matched points of interest, wherein the augmenting of the feature vector includes adding a dimensional location associated with underlying points of interest; matching one or more points of interest defined by augmented feature vectors from a first image with one or more points of interest defined by augmented feature vectors from a second image to result in a second set of matched points of interest, wherein two or more matching iterations are performed based on a predefined range of orientations associated with augmented feature vectors; calculating a first confidence value based, in part, on the second set of matched points; determining the first image and the second image are related based on the first confidence value; and correlating a known identity that is associated with one of the first image or the second image with a known geographic location that is associated with the other of the first image or the second image.