Digital picture frames and methods of photo sharing

Abstract

A picture frame and methods of use. The picture frame includes a housing with a display area on a first side and a back panel on an opposite second side from the display. The back panel includes an asymmetrical nonplanar shape and/or an off-center rotatable stand. A network connection allows digital frames to upload of photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members. An integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer and can capture gesture-based feedback. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers. The photos can be filtered and cropped at the receiver side. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16 / 113,366, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15 / 824,337, filed on 28 Nov. 2017, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15 / 150,623, filed on 10 May 2016, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 949,353, filed on 23 Nov. 2015, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 455,297, filed on 8 Aug. 2014, which is a continuation-in-part of each of: U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 051,071, filed on 10 Oct. 2013, and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 051,089, filed on 10 Oct. 2013. The co-pending parent application(s) are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety and are made a part hereof, including but not limited to those portions which specifically appear hereinafter.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]This invention relates general...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0027]The invention can include the incorporation or creation of user communities and sub-communities, with such communities and sub-communities sharing information. Embodiments of the invention include automatically identifying a user's location and activity, and desirably notifying that user's community of that user's location, as well as sharing relevant photos from the user's community to the digital picture frame. Particular embodiments of this invention provide one or more additional community functionalities including, without limitation, automatically identifying a user's activity and notifying that user's community of that user's activity, commenting on user activity and location report by user or community—with multiple and multimedia comments supported, supporting the “liking” of user activity by the community, supporting the user tagging of location, activity, or the pairing of location and identity—tagging can be textual or via any multimedia means, correlating the individual user's activity with the ongoing activity of others within the community, and/or correlating the individual user's activity with the past activities of others within the community, all use

Problems solved by technology

However, multiple steps may be required for such synchronization.

These manual steps can be difficult to do if one wants to change to

Images