Apple patent suggests Siri could shortly help you seek & organize your iPhone photographs

Apple Patent Suggests Siri Could Shortly Help You Seek & Organize Your iPhone Photographs

apple fruit likes to take some of the hassle out of the time-consuming chore that is coordinating our photographs. A patent released today minutia a scheme for mechanically tagging images utilising a “voice-based digital aide” — and that’s Siri, to the rest of us.

The patent was originally filed back in June 2012 and details a scheme that would make use of natural-language processing and a bit of voice input from you. recount the photograph — “This is me at the sandy shore” — and your device would accredit tags linked to the position and who’s in the image. Any photographs that are in the identical position throughout the identical time time span with alike content would receive tags as well, reports AppleInsider.

state “Show me photographs of me at the beach last month” and you’ll get just that: images with those particular tags, for that specific time time span, grouped logically. The natural-language processing at play here would be adept of differentiating between pronouns and the like to hold things as hassle-free as likely: You could use your title or “me” interchangeably or “us” to recognise multiple persons in a photograph, and it would still reliably tag photographs.

That patent offers no indication of when we might glimpse any such tech on iPhones, but relentless shutterbugs (myself encompassed) could expected use a hand. The revamped Camera and photographs app that debuted with iOS 7 currently started grouping photos by time and position, and appending a tagging system that was very simple to use would be a phenomenal step in the direction of taking some of the drudgery out of keeping our photo collections tidy.