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Method for generating customized photo album pages and prints based on people and gender profiles
Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures LLC
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Filing: 2003-11-25
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Granted: 2008-04-22
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Expires: 2023-11-25
Abstract
Abstract A method for generating customized photo album pages for a collection of digital images comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining a plurality of digital images; (b) automatically grouping the images into one or more image sets based on at least one of grouping by events and grouping by people present in the images; (c) automatically profiling the images within each image set according to image content, thereby relating a particular image set to one or more design themes; (d) providing a database of design elements that may be used to generate customized photo album pages; (e) utilizing the design themes generated by the profiling step to automatically suggest one or more design elements from the database of design elements; and (f) automatically generating a customized photo album page layout for each image set by applying one or more of the suggested design elements to the page layout.
Inventors
- 👤 Madirakshi Das
- 👤 Alexander C. Loui
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 10:21
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06T; G06T11/00; G06T11/60; G06F; G06F16/00; G06F16/50; G06F16/54
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 26
Claim 1
Independent Claim
94 words
A method implemented by an image processing system for facilitating generation of a customized photo album for a collection of digital images, said method comprising the steps of: obtaining a set of digital images; identifying age information associated with a person identified in the set of digital images; identifying one or more suggested display elements from a database of display elements based at least upon the age information; and generating a customized photo album page for the set of digital images by applying one or more of the suggested display elements to the page.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
94 words
A method implemented by an image processing system for facilitating generation of a customized photo album for a collection of digital images, said method comprising the steps of: obtaining a set of digital images; identifying age information associated with a person identified in the set of digital images; identifying one or more suggested display elements from a database of display elements based at least upon the age information; and generating a customized photo album page for the set of digital images by applying one or more of the suggested display elements to the page.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
63 words
The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of identifying gender information associated with the person identified in the set of digital images, wherein the step of identifying the one or more suggested display elements includes identifying the one or more suggested display elements from the database of display elements based at least upon the age information and the gender information.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
77 words
The method of claim 2 , further comprising the step of identifying numbers of people identified in each image of the set of digital images, wherein the step of identifying the one or more suggested display elements includes identifying the one or more suggested display elements from the database of display elements based at least upon the age information, the gender information, and the numbers of people identified in each image of the set of digital images.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
28 words
The method of claim 3 , wherein the numbers of people are identified by a number of faces identified in each image of the set of digital images.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
74 words
The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of identifying numbers of people identified in each image of the set of digital images, wherein the step of identifying the one or more suggested display elements includes identifying the one or more suggested display elements from the database of display elements based at least upon the age information and the numbers of people identified in each image of the set of digital images.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
28 words
The method of claim 5 , wherein the numbers of people are identified by a number of faces identified in each image of the set of digital images.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
70 words
The method of claim 6 , wherein the step of identifying one or more suggested display elements identifies the one or more suggested display elements at least by using the numbers of faces identified in each image of the set of digital images to determine whether each image in the set is an individual portrait, a group portrait, a large group picture, a snapshot picture, or a picture without faces.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
80 words
The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of identifying numbers of and sizes of faces identified in each image of the set of digital images, wherein the step of identifying the one or more suggested display elements includes identifying the one or more suggested display elements from the database of display elements based at least upon the age information and the numbers of and sizes of faces identified in each image of the set of digital images.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
30 words
The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of identifying one or more suggested display elements identifies more than one suggested display element from the database of display elements.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 9 , further comprising the step of presenting the suggested display elements to a user for selection.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
99 words
The method of claim 1 , further comprising the steps of: obtaining the collection of digital images; grouping the collection of digital images into a plurality of image sets based on at least grouping by events, grouping by people present in the images, or both grouping by events and by grouping by people present in the images, wherein the set of digital images is one of the grouped image sets, and wherein the two identifying steps and the generating step are performed for each of the plurality of image sets, thereby generating a plurality of customized photo album pages.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
24 words
The method of claim 11 , further comprising the step of assembling each of the customized photo album pages into a customized photo album.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
110 words
A computer readable storage medium storing instructions configured to cause a data processing system to implement a method for facilitating generation of a customized photo album for a collection of digital images, wherein the instructions comprise: instructions for obtaining a set of digital images; instructions for identifying age information associated with a person identified in the set of digital images; instructions for identifying one or more suggested display elements from a database of display elements based at least upon the age information; and instructions for generating a customized photo album page for the set of digital images by applying one or more of the suggested display elements to the page.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
110 words
A computer readable storage medium storing instructions configured to cause a data processing system to implement a method for facilitating generation of a customized photo album for a collection of digital images, wherein the instructions comprise: instructions for obtaining a set of digital images; instructions for identifying age information associated with a person identified in the set of digital images; instructions for identifying one or more suggested display elements from a database of display elements based at least upon the age information; and instructions for generating a customized photo album page for the set of digital images by applying one or more of the suggested display elements to the page.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
70 words
The computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for identifying gender information associated with the person identified in the set of digital images, wherein the instructions for identifying the one or more suggested display elements includes instructions for identifying the one or more suggested display elements from the database of display elements based at least upon the age information and the gender information.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
84 words
The computer readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for identifying numbers of people identified in each image of the set of digital images, wherein the instructions for identifying the one or more suggested display elements includes instructions for identifying the one or more suggested display elements from the database of display elements based at least upon the age information, the gender information, and the numbers of people identified in each image of the set of digital images.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
31 words
The computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the numbers of people are identified by a number of faces identified in each image of the set of digital images.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
81 words
The computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for identifying numbers of people identified in each image of the set of digital images, wherein the instructions for identifying the one or more suggested display elements includes instructions for identifying the one or more suggested display elements from the database of display elements based at least upon the age information and the numbers of people identified in each image of the set of digital images.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
31 words
The computer readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the numbers of people are identified by a number of faces identified in each image of the set of digital images.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
73 words
The computer readable storage medium of claim 18 , wherein the instructions for identifying one or more suggested display elements identifies the one or more suggested display elements at least by using the numbers of faces identified in each image of the set of digital images to determine whether each image in the set is an individual portrait, a group portrait, a large group picture, a snapshot picture, or a picture without faces.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
87 words
The computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for identifying numbers of and sizes of faces identified in each image of the set of digital images, wherein the instructions for identifying the one or more suggested display elements includes instructions for identifying the one or more suggested display elements from the database of display elements based at least upon the age information and the numbers of and sizes of faces identified in each image of the set of digital images.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
33 words
The computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the instructions for identifying one or more suggested display elements identifies more than one suggested display element from the database of display elements.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
26 words
The computer readable storage medium of claim 21 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for presenting the suggested display elements to a user for selection.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
108 words
The computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the instructions further comprise: instructions for obtaining the collection of digital images; instructions for grouping the collection of digital images into a plurality of image sets based on at least grouping by events, grouping by people present in the images, or both grouping by events and by grouping by people present in the images, wherein the set of digital images is one of the grouped image sets, and wherein the two instructions for identifying and the instructions for generating are performed for each of the plurality of image sets, thereby generating a plurality of customized photo album pages.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
29 words
The computer readable storage medium of claim 23 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for assembling each of the customized photo album pages into a customized photo album.
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