Identifying collection images with special events

a technology for identifying collection images and special events, applied in the field of identifying, can solve the problems of increasing the organization and retrieval of images and videos is already a problem for the typical consumer, and the length of time spanned by a typical consumer's digital image collection is only a few years. to achieve the effect of effective search

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-01-11
INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 83 LLC
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[0016] It has been found that digital images of interest can be effectively searched in a collection of

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As a consequence, the organization and retrieval of images and videos is already a problem for the typical consumer.
Currently, the length of time spanned by a typical consumer's digital image collection is only a few years.
The organization and retrieval problem will continue to grow as the length of time spanned by the average digital image and video collection increases.
However, there is no description of assigning meaningful labels to images or sets of images.

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[0031] In the following description, some embodiments of the present invention will be described as software programs. Those skilled in the art will readily recognize that the equivalent of such software can also be constructed in hardware. Because image manipulation algorithms and systems are well known, the present description will be directed in particular to algorithms and systems forming part of, or cooperating more directly with, the method in accordance with the present invention. Other aspects of such algorithms and systems, and hardware or software for producing and otherwise processing the image signals involved therewith, not specifically shown or described herein can be selected from such systems, algorithms, components, and elements known in the art. Given the description as set forth in the following specification, all software implementation thereof is conventional and within the ordinary skill in such arts.

[0032] The present invention can be implemented in computer ...

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A method for associating event times or time periods with digital images in a collection for determining if a digital image is of interest, includes storing a collection of digital images each having an associated capture time; comparing the associated capture time in the collection with a special event time to determine if a digital image in the collection is of interest, wherein the comparing step includes calculation of a special event time associated with a special event based on the calendar time associated with the special event and using such information to perform the comparison step; and associating digital images of interest with the special event.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] Reference is made to commonly assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 116,279, filed Apr. 28, 2005, entitled “Using Time in Recognizing Persons in Images” by Gallagher et al and U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______ filed Jun. 2, 2005, entitled “Using Photographer Identity to Classify Images” by Gallagher et al, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention related to an improved way to identify digital images from a collection, making use of special events. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] With the advent of digital photography, consumers are amassing large media collections of digital images and videos. For purposes of this description, the term “images” will be understood to include both still images and “videos” which are a collection of image frames, often having associated audio stream. Therefore, an image collection can contain images or videos or both. The average n...

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IPC IPC(8): G06T15/70
CPCG06F17/30265H04N1/32128G06K9/00677G06F17/30551G06F16/58G06F16/2477G06V20/30
Inventor GALLAGHER, ANDREW C.FRYER, SAMUEL M.LOUI, ALEXANDER C.OLIVER, JASON R.ECKHAUS, NEALPARULSKI, KENNETH A.
Owner INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 83 LLC
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