By Adam Fraser
Remember all those photos you’ve auto-uploaded to OneDrive
from your Lumia? Cortana can now search through them all for you so you don’t
have to.
The recent update to the OneDrive app 4.12 on windows phone delivered
one key update: Cortana integration.
If you’ve been capturing your world by snapping away and
uploading those photos to OneDrive automatically, shifting through them all can
be time consuming.
Once you’ve updated OneDrive app, launch it and accept the
‘’use Cortana to search your OneDrive files’’ message.
Now, anytime you activate Cortana(available in select
markets) and say ‘’onedrive search for cat photos’’, or ‘’OneDrive search for
people photos’’, or even more cleverly, ‘’OneDrive search for Hawaii sunset
Photos,’’ you’ll be presented in seconds with what you have asked for.
But how does OneDrive know what’s in your photos?
Thanks to be very clever image-captioning technology, your
photos are recognized and automatically tagged when they’re uploaded to
OneDrive. So, when you take a photo of a cat and upload it, the technology
identifies the characteristics of the cat and labels it as such.
The geographical data is already added the moment you take
the photo; this is done by using the GPS on your device.
By making use of both of those features, OneDrive can find
you photos of certain objects at specific locations. You can find more details
about caption photos at the Next at Microsoft blog.
Be sure to update your OneDrive app today and take advantage
of the Cortana integration.
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