In one example embodiment, an information processing apparatus causes a display device to display a first image from images associated with an observation target object. The images include the first image and a second image which corresponds to an annotation mark. In this embodiment, the information processing apparatus also causes the display device to display the annotation mark corresponding to the second image. In this embodiment, the displayed annotation mark overlaps the first image.

The technology relates to selecting and displaying images captured at different points in time. As an example, a user of a computing device may view a first street level image as viewed from a particular location and oriented in a particular direction. The user may select other time periods for which similar images are available. Upon selecting a particular time period, a second street level image may be displayed concurrently with the first street level image, wherein the second street level image was captured on or around the selected time period. If the user changes the perspective of the first image an automatic change in perspective of the second image may occur.

An information processing system includes: a search system to search, for an image to be found, a database according to a search request and based on similarity thereof to a search key image, the database having the image and linkage information registered in association with each other, and transmit the linkage information to a transmitter of the request when the image is found; an acquisition unit to acquire an image captured by a terminal and the request with the captured image as the search key image; a search unit to perform the requested searching and transmit, to the terminal, the linkage information as a result of the searching; and a notification management unit to transfer permission information to a notification unit when the found image is a particular image, the permission information enabling identification of the terminal and indicating that providing a notification to the terminal is permitted.

An information processing system includes: a search system to search, for an image to be found, a database according to a search request and based on similarity thereof to a search key image, the database having the image and linkage information registered in association with each other, and transmit the linkage information to a transmitter of the request when the image is found; an acquisition unit to acquire an image captured by a terminal and the request with the captured image as the search key image; a search unit to perform the requested searching and transmit, to the terminal, the linkage information as a result of the searching; and a notification management unit to transfer permission information to a notification unit when the found image is a particular image, the permission information enabling identification of the terminal and indicating that providing a notification to the terminal is permitted.

(Object) To provide an information processing system capable of presenting important information immediately. (Means of Achieving the Object) An information processing system according to the present disclosure includes a terminal device and an information processing apparatus configured to receive content data from the terminal device. The information processing system includes: a reference storage unit storing reference information indicating an important item; an important item extracting unit configured to extract important item information indicated by the reference information from the content data, by referring to the reference storage unit; an important item storing unit configured to store the extracted important item information into an important item storage unit; and a display control unit configured to display the important item information stored in the important item storage unit on a display device of the terminal device, in response to receiving a display request of the important item information.

Systems and methods to generate clusters of media objects (e.g., photos) that are associated with geolocation information (e.g., GPS data, folder name, file name, other metadata) and without geolocation information so that the media objects in a media library without geolocation information can be given location data in an automated user approved system. An approval system of visual overlays on a graphical user interface (GUI) lets users approve the proposed geolocation clusters and approve or reject the geolocation proposals individually or as a group. The resulting approved clusters may then be tagged with geolocation information (e.g., GPS coordinates, city, state, country) and may then be automatically organized in a number of ways, including but not limited to, by location, on a calendar, on a map, etc.

A method, computer system, and a computer program product for authenticating a user in a computing system is provided. A corresponding method comprises validating one or more user snapshots of the user that should have been acquired in corresponding acquisition conditions according to their match with the corresponding acquisition conditions; the user snapshots are then sent (at least in part) to one or more authenticators requesting them to identify the user. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also proposed. Moreover, a corresponding system is proposed.

A system and method for resolving an ambiguity between similar objects in an image is disclosed. A three dimensional representation of a room is generated, and objects in the room are identified from an image of the room are identified. A determination is made that at least two objects are visually similar, and a position of the two objects is ambiguous. At least one question based on the determined ambiguity is programmatically generated based on information known about the room, and is phrased such that the ambiguity can be resolved by an answer to the question. Based on the answer received one of the objects is selected. At least one property of the selected object is modified based upon the selection of one of the at least two objects.

Provided are techniques for enhancing images with emotion information, comprising capturing a plurality of images; identifying an individual in the plurality of images; analyzing the plurality of images for emotional content; converting the emotional content into emotion metadata; correlating the emotional content with the individual to produce associated emotion metadata; and storing the associated emotion metadata in conjunction with the captured image in a computer-readable storage medium. The disclosed techniques may also include capturing physiological data corresponding to an individual that captures the image; analyzing the physiological data for a second emotional content; converting the second emotional content into a second emotion metadata; storing the second emotion metadata in conjunction with the captured image in the computer-readable storage medium.

An intelligent disaster prevention system and an intelligent disaster prevention method are provided. The intelligent disaster prevention system includes a server and an electronic device coupled to the server. The server detects the electronic device in a disaster area and obtains a location information of the electronic device. The server obtains real-time disaster information from a website. The server obtains a real-time aerial image corresponding to the disaster area. The server selects a first refuge from a plurality of refuges corresponding to the disaster area according to the location information, the real-time disaster information, and the real-time aerial image, and calculates an evacuation route from the location information to the first refuge. The electronic device receives the first refuge and the evacuation route, and displays the first refuge and the evacuation route on a map.