Asynchronous art jurying system

• US 20060003302A1
• Filed: 07/05/2005
• Published: 01/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Paul Fisher
• Original Assignee: Paul Fisher
• Inventors: Fisher, Paul
• Granted Patent: US 8,657,606 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/306
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
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• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
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• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering

Abstract

A remote art jurying system in which art jurors independently evaluate works of art at different locations, times and places. A central database presents information about each work of art and/or the artist to an individual juror. The database provides images of the artwork along with relevant information. Each juror can access the database independent of otherjurors in terms of location, or time. The system provides enhanced voting methods. The juror can review or change their votes at any time prior to final submission. They can review all works of art, by categories of art, or by scores. The juror reviews artwork thumbnail images, which can be used to select high resolution images with extended information. Selected categories of art can be enhanced by eliminating the lowest scores to balance artwork finalists across multiple categories of art. An online artist'"'"'s application system is integrated with an image portfolio management system which allows artists to maintain permanent portfolio copies which can be electronically attached to applications. The system can be used for jurying art or other types of competitive ratings.

Claims

1. An asynchronous art jurying system, further comprising:

a network having a plurality of remote and/or local juror terminals/computers;

at least one central database having information related to individual artists and their associated artworks;

at least a portion of the central database comprising a slide show, the slide show having information related to individual artists and their associated artworks who are competing in a selected art show; and

means to asynchronously display a slide show on juror terminal/computers, each slide show independently controlled in each juror terminal/computer;

means to input votes related to the associated artworks that each individual jurors own pace.