Calendar-based interfaces for browsing and manipulation of digital images
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1. A graphical user interface for displaying to a user a digital image having an associated date, comprising:
- a graphical calendar; and
a graphical object representative of said digital image displayed at a location within said graphical calendar that corresponds to said date associated with said digital image.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to navigate, view, and manipulate a collection of digital images utilizing a GUI that has the familiar context of a calendar. Graphical objects representative of digital images are displayed within a particular day displayed in a calendar-based GUI. A user may group digital images into groups, modify the date with which a digital image is associated and perform various other manipulations using embodiments of a calendar-based GUI.
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27 Claims
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1. A graphical user interface for displaying to a user a digital image having an associated date, comprising:
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a graphical calendar; and
a graphical object representative of said digital image displayed at a location within said graphical calendar that corresponds to said date associated with said digital image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for organizing and displaying to a user a plurality of digital images comprising the steps of:
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obtaining said plurality of digital images;
generating a database containing information for each of said plurality of digital images;
displaying a graphical calendar; and
,displaying a plurality of graphical objects at distinct locations within said graphical calendar, wherein each graphical object represents at least one of said plurality of digital images. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer readable product comprising:
a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for displaying to a user a graphical calendar interface for navigating and manipulating a plurality of digital images, the computer readable program code means comprising;
computer readable program code means for displaying a graphical user interface including a graphical calendar and a plurality of graphical objects representative of at least a portion of said plurality of digital images positioned at distinct locations within said graphical calendar;
computer readable program code means for receiving an input from said user to alter the display of said graphical user interface; and
,computer readable program code means for receiving an input from said user to alter a location of at least one of said plurality of graphical objects. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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