Organizing media items based on metadata similarities

Abstract

A media item selection application is provided for use with computing devices. The media item selection application is configured to identify media items that have significant similarities in metadata values, such as location and time period. The media item selection application is further configured to visualize similar media items as a group, depicted as a section within a collection or gallery, in which each group is a suggestion for a natural collection of media items representing an event. Where media items do not fall within a group of a particular size with significant similarities, groups are consolidated to create a second type of collection which covers a time-period between two significant groups. Further, the media item selection application is configured to depict media items that show extraordinary similarity as a virtual stack of all such media items.

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PRIORITY CLAIM[0001]This application claims the benefit of Provisional Appln. 61 / 746,852, filed Dec. 28, 2012, the entire contents of which is hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein, under 35 U.S.C. §119(e).TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present disclosure relates to organizing digital media items based on data relating to the media items. The disclosure relates more specifically to organizational techniques for digital media items as applied to graphical user interfaces of computing devices.BACKGROUND[0003]The approaches described in this section are approaches that could be pursued, but not necessarily approaches that have been previously conceived or pursued. Therefore, unless otherwise indicated, it should not be assumed that any of the approaches described in this section qualify as prior art merely by virtue of their inclusion in this section.[0004]Digital photography has become ubiquitous among users of mobile computing devices. Because taking digital media i...

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