Methods for characterizing content item groups

• US 10,324,899 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2005
• Issued: 06/18/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Sorvari, Antti, Salmenkaita, Jukka-Pekka, Paalasmaa, Joonas
• Primary Examiner(s): Hailu, Tadesse
• Application Number:
  US11/268,695
• Publication Number:
  US 20070112852A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,971 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/168 Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs query results presentation G06F16/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/355 Class or cluster creation or modification

Abstract

The selection and presentation of representative image content items and textual content. In one aspect, the present invention relates to the selection of one or more image/video content items that are likely to represent well a group of image/video content items. In another aspect, the present invention relates to presentation of the selected content items are discussed. In yet another aspect, the present invention relates to the composition of textual characterizations of content.

Claims

1. A method for representing content organized as content items of a same type in a node on a graphical user interface, comprising:

grouping a plurality of similar content items in the node into at least one cluster, wherein the plurality of similar content items in a particular cluster are identified as having similar content based on at least one of content analysis or technical capturing parameters, and content items in the node but not in the cluster are identified as dissimilar content items based on at least one of content analysis or technical capturing parameters;

selecting, by a processor, representative content items for each cluster, each representative content item selected from the respective cluster; and

in an instance, causing display of one representative content item of the at least one cluster, along with one or more thumbnails of dissimilar content items in the node, wherein the similar content items of the same type other than the representative content item of the cluster are not displayed in the instance.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each representative content item is identified based on an automatic recognition of favorite content items based upon logged actions.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein each representative content item is identified further based on an automatic recognition of favorite content items based upon a manual favoriteness rating.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of representative content items are selected, each having at least one characterization resulting in a plurality of characterizations, and wherein the presentation involves the presentation of the plurality of characterizations.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the presentation of the plurality of characterizations is dynamic.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein each of the plurality of characterizations is presented for a period of time.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the period of time is shorter for representative content items similar to other representative content items than the period for representative content items that are dissimilar from other representative content items.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the node is a directory and the content items are files within the directory.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the similar content or dissimilar content is identified based on technical capturing parameters.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein each representative content item is further identified based on a number of similar content items to the respective representative content items within the respective cluster according to technical capturing parameters associated with each of the content items in the respective cluster, wherein similarity of the similar content items is determined based on the technical capturing parameters indicating capture via a continuous shooting mode.

11. A computer program product for representing content organized as content items of a same type in a node on a graphical user interface, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer-executable program code instructions comprising program code instructions for:

grouping a plurality of similar content items in the node into at least one cluster, wherein the plurality of similar content items in a particular cluster are identified as having similar content based on at least one of content analysis or technical capturing parameters, and content items in the node but not in the cluster are identified as dissimilar content items based on at least one of content analysis or technical capturing parameters;

selecting, by the program code instructions, representative content items for each cluster, each representative content item selected from the respective cluster; and

in an instance, causing display of one representative content item of the at least one cluster, along with one or more thumbnails of other dissimilar content items in the node, wherein the similar content items of the same type other than the representative content item of the cluster are not displayed in the instance.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the node is a directory and the content items are files within the directory.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein at least one of the similar content or dissimilar content is identified based on technical capturing parameters.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein each representative content item is further identified based on a number of similar content items to the respective representative content items within the respective cluster according to technical capturing parameters associated with each of the content items in the respective cluster, wherein similarity of the similar content items is determined based on the technical capturing parameters indicating capture via a continuous shooting mode.

15. An apparatus for representing content organized as content items of a same type in a node on a graphical user interface, comprising:

at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to at least;

group the content items in the node into clusters, wherein at least one representative content item is selected from each cluster;

select representations of the representative content items for each respective cluster, the at least one representation selected from the group comprising image representation, video representation, textual representation, audio representation, or combinations thereof, wherein a first representative content item for a respective cluster belongs to a set of similar content items having similar content; and

cause display of one representative content item of the similar content items in the node, along with one or more thumbnails of dissimilar content items in the node, wherein the similar content items other than the representative content item of the similar content items are not displayed.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the node is a directory and the content items are files within the directory.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein each representative content item is further identified based on a number of similar content items to the respective representative content items within the respective cluster according to technical capturing parameters associated with each of the content items in the respective cluster, wherein similarity of the similar content items is determined based on the technical capturing parameters indicating capture via a continuous shooting mode.