Automated method of displaying personalized photos on a digital picture frame
First Claim
1. A method of displaying photos on a digital picture frame including a digital display mounted within a frame, a camera connected to the frame, and a network connection module, the method comprising:
- automatically determining with the camera an identity of a user of the digital picture frame;
automatically determining a viewer profile from the identity of the user by automatically learning and uploading a profile from a social media account of the user and supplementing with information stored for the digital picture frame, wherein the viewer profile includes family information, community member information, and user favorites learned through the social media account;
automatically continually updating the viewer profile from the social media account of the user;
automatically comparing photo metadata for each of a plurality of stored user photos to the viewer profile to determine matching user photos;
automatically comparing photo metadata for each of a plurality of stored community member photos to the viewer profile to determine matching community member photos, wherein the stored community member photos are stored on community social media accounts of community members of the user;
automatically downloading, and changing photos shown on the digital display to, the matching user photos and, from the community social media accounts, the matching community member photos, upon detection of the user with the camera;
wherein the method further comprises;
automatically monitoring destinations and member activities of community members of the user at the destinations via electronic devices of the community members;
automatically learning activity patterns at the destinations for each of the community members from manually entered and manually confirmed member information and automatically determined context information associated with the member information;
automatically identifying when any of the community members is participating in a member activity upon future member arrivals at one of the destinations as a function of comparing the context information to a future context of each of the future member arrivals, without receiving any manually entered confirmation or manually entered additional member information;
automatically tagging community member photos taken at any of the each of the future member arrivals with photo metadata of corresponding member activity or destination information;
automatically determining relevant photos of the community members that are relevant to the user from the photo metadata of the tagged community member photos; and
automatically loading and including the relevant photos as the matching community member photos in the display shown on the digital display upon the detection of the user with the camera.
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Abstract
A digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for use as a Mobile Positional Social Media (MPSM) device for displaying social media pictures from a user'"'"'s social media account or her or his community members'"'"' social media accounts. The integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer, and a viewer profile automatically determined from the identity of the viewer. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers.
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16 Claims
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1. A method of displaying photos on a digital picture frame including a digital display mounted within a frame, a camera connected to the frame, and a network connection module, the method comprising:
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automatically determining with the camera an identity of a user of the digital picture frame; automatically determining a viewer profile from the identity of the user by automatically learning and uploading a profile from a social media account of the user and supplementing with information stored for the digital picture frame, wherein the viewer profile includes family information, community member information, and user favorites learned through the social media account; automatically continually updating the viewer profile from the social media account of the user; automatically comparing photo metadata for each of a plurality of stored user photos to the viewer profile to determine matching user photos; automatically comparing photo metadata for each of a plurality of stored community member photos to the viewer profile to determine matching community member photos, wherein the stored community member photos are stored on community social media accounts of community members of the user; automatically downloading, and changing photos shown on the digital display to, the matching user photos and, from the community social media accounts, the matching community member photos, upon detection of the user with the camera; wherein the method further comprises; automatically monitoring destinations and member activities of community members of the user at the destinations via electronic devices of the community members; automatically learning activity patterns at the destinations for each of the community members from manually entered and manually confirmed member information and automatically determined context information associated with the member information; automatically identifying when any of the community members is participating in a member activity upon future member arrivals at one of the destinations as a function of comparing the context information to a future context of each of the future member arrivals, without receiving any manually entered confirmation or manually entered additional member information; automatically tagging community member photos taken at any of the each of the future member arrivals with photo metadata of corresponding member activity or destination information; automatically determining relevant photos of the community members that are relevant to the user from the photo metadata of the tagged community member photos; and automatically loading and including the relevant photos as the matching community member photos in the display shown on the digital display upon the detection of the user with the camera. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16)
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10. A method of displaying photos on a digital picture frame including a digital display mounted within a frame, a camera connected to the frame, and a network connection module, the method comprising:
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automatically monitoring destinations and user activities performed at the destinations of a first user via a first mobile electronic device of the first user; receiving user information comprising a first user activity performed at at least one of the destinations upon a user arriving at the at least one destination; automatically learning activity patterns for the first user activity by automatically associating the user information with the at least one of the destinations, automatically determining a user activity context for the first user activity, and automatically comparing a further context of each of a plurality of further user arrivals to the at least one of the destinations to the user activity context; automatically updating context information associated with the at least one destination from the further context of each of the further user arrivals; automatically identifying that the first user is participating in the first user activity upon future user arrivals at the at least one destination as a function of comparing the context information to a future context of each of the future user arrivals determined via the first mobile electronic device, without receiving any manually entered confirmation or manually entered additional user information; automatically tagging photos taken at the destinations with the context information to obtain photo metadata; automatically determining with the camera an identity of the user when viewing the digital picture frame; automatically determining a viewer profile from the identity of the user; automatically comparing the photo metadata to the viewer profile to determine matching photos; automatically changing photos shown on the digital display to the matching photos upon detection of the user with the camera. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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