AUTOMATIC IDENTIFYING

• US 20090122198A1
• Filed: 11/08/2007
• Published: 05/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Thorn, Ola Karl
• Granted Patent: US 8,144,939 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/715
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/00 Speaker identification or verification techniques

Abstract

A method includes storing a picture or video that includes a first person. The method also includes automatically identifying the first person using speaker recognition or image recognition and tagging the picture or video with information indicating that the first person is in the picture or video.

Claims

1. In a device, a method comprising:

storing a picture or video, the picture or video including at least a first person;

automatically identifying the first person using at least one of speaker recognition or image recognition; and

tagging the picture or video with information indicating that the first person is in the picture or video.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the picture or video with a group of pictures or videos associated with the first person.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing an interface associated with retrieving pictures stored in the device;

receiving a selection via the interface, the selection identifying a second person;

retrieving a plurality of pictures associated with the second person based on the selection; and

displaying the plurality of pictures.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing voice related information associated with the first person, and wherein the identifying the first person comprises;

identifying the first person by comparing received voice input from the first person to the stored voice related information associated with the first person.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing image information associated with a plurality of people, and wherein the identifying the first person comprises;

comparing the picture or video to the stored image information associated with the plurality of people, and

identifying the first person based on the comparing.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying an electronic mail address associated with the first person; and

automatically sending the picture or video to the electronic mail address associated with the first person.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing unique words voiced by the first person, and wherein the identifying the first person comprises;

identifying the first person based on receipt of one of the unique words.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing voice information associated with a plurality of people;

storing image information associated with at least some of the plurality of people;

storing a plurality of pictures;

identifying people in at least some of the plurality of pictures using the stored image information;

identifying people present when at least some of the plurality of pictures were taken using the stored voice information; and

tagging the at least some of the plurality of pictures with identification information corresponding to the identified people.

9. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

access a picture including at least a first person;

identify the first person using image recognition; and

display the picture with information identifying the first person.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, further comprising instructions for causing the at least one processor to:

tag the picture with information indicating that the first person is in the picture.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, further comprising instructions for causing the at least one processor to:

sort the picture based on the tag.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, further comprising instructions for causing the at least one processor to:

display the information identifying the first person for a period of time; and

remove the information in the picture identifying the first person after the period of time.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, further comprising instructions for causing the at least one processor to:

provide an interface for accessing stored pictures, the interface including a plurality of names; and

retrieve, in response to selection of a first one of the plurality names, pictures associated with the first name.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, further comprising instructions for causing the at least one processor to:

automatically signal a messaging program to transmit the picture to an electronic mail address associated with the first person.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, further comprising instructions for causing the at least one processor to:

identify a plurality of people present when the picture was taken; and

signal a messaging program to transmit the picture to electronic mail addresses associated with the plurality of people.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, further comprising instructions for causing the at least one processor to:

identify at least one other person in the picture using voice recognition.

17. A device, comprising:

a memory;

a camera configured to;

take a picture including at least a first person, and store the picture in the memory; and

processing logic configured to;

identify the first person using at least one of speaker recognition or image recognition.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the processing logic is further configured to:

store a tag with the picture or a link to the tag in the memory, the tag identifying the first person.

19. The device of claim 17, further comprising:

a display, and wherein the processing logic is further configured to;

receive a selection identifying the first person, and

display the picture via the display, the display including information identifying the first person.

20. The device of claim 17, wherein the processing logic is further configured to:

provide an input interface to a user of the device, the input interface being configured to allow a user to select a name or label associated with the first person, and

retrieve, in response to selection of the name or label, a plurality of pictures associated with the first person.

21. The device of claim 17, wherein the processing logic comprises:

speaker recognition logic configured to;

receive voice input from the first person, and

identify the first person using speaker recognition.

22. The device of claim 17, wherein the processing logic comprises:

person identifier logic configured to store image related information associated with a plurality of people in a database, and

identify the first person based on the stored image related information.

23. The device of claim 22, wherein the processing logic is further configured to:

identify parties in pictures using information stored in the database.