Nokia has been granted a patent for the voice tagging of camera phone pictures. The patent details how Nokia might add a feature to create voice tags to make it easy to file images on your phone or on a PC.
The system would allow you to take a picture of a landmark or person and immediately tag it with a number of tags and the image would then be stored in a folder for each tag.
For example if you take a photo of a sunset over the sea. You could tag it with “sunset” and “sea” and the photo would exist in the two separate folders.
Given the success Flickr has had and the increased integration several handsets have had with it we can see voice tagging becoming very popular if Nokia add this to its camera phones.
From the abstract:
A method of handling images in an image capturing device, said method including the steps of capturing an image, receiving a voice tag and matching the received voice tag with a stored voice tag, said stored voice tag having an instruction associated therewith for handling an image, and handling the image in accordance with the instruction corresponding to the received voice tag.
