USER INTERFACE FOR FACE RECOGNITION

• US 20080112621A1
• Filed: 11/14/2006
• Published: 05/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Loui, Alexander C., Cerosaletti, Cathleen D., Gallagher, Andrew C., Stubler, Peter O., Hibino, Stacie L., Das, Madirakshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,315,463 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/190
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/172 Classification, e.g. identification

Abstract

A method of organizing an image collection includes detecting faces in the image collection, extracting features from the detected faces, determining a set of unique faces by analyzing the extracted features, wherein each face in the set of unique faces is believed to be from a different person than the other faces in the set; and displaying the unique faces to a user.

Claims

1. A method of organizing an image collection comprising:

a) detecting faces in the image collection;

b) extracting features from the detected faces;

c) determining a set of unique faces by analyzing the extracted features, wherein each face in the set of unique faces is believed to be from a different person than the other faces in the set; and

d) displaying the unique faces to a user.

2. The method of claim 1, further including:

e) the user selecting one of the unique faces using a touch screen, a mouse, audio input, text input, or keyboard input.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user provides a label that is associated with the selected unique face.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein an image that contains a face similar to the selected unique face is annotated by a provided name.

5. The method of claim 2, further including selecting one or more unique faces and creating icon corresponding to such selected faces that are useable for future searching.

6. The method of claim 2 wherein there are two or more icons of the same face and such icons are combined into a single icon.