DIGITAL PHOTO ORGANIZING AND TAGGING METHOD
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented digital photo organizing and tagging method, comprising the steps of:
- storing digital images into a database of computer digital images supplied by a user, thereby retaining stored digital images in the computer database;
displaying the stored digital images on a display device;
accepting into the computer database descriptions of the digital images displayed on the display device, the descriptions being supplied by the user;
tagging the digital images with the descriptions, thereby producing tagged digital image objects;
replacing in the computer database the stored digital images with e tagged digital image objects;
displaying the tagged digital image objects, including the tagging descriptions on the display device;
creating key indices in the database, the key indices being based on the descriptions and selectively associated with the tagged digital image objects according to input from the user, the key indices allowing the user to update, sort, search and arrange into digital albums the tagged digital image objects in the computer database;
randomly selecting the key indices, thereby building a set of randomly selected key indices; and
displaying in a predetermined structural pattern tagged digital image objects specified by the randomly selected key indices.
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Abstract
The digital photo organizing and tagging method includes software and a database that organizes digitized versions of dispersed collections of images such as photographs, pictures and other graphical objects from a variety of sources. The method facilitates describing, resizing, indexing, and sorting the different aspects contained in images. Features include documentation, e-mail, updating, version control, inclusion of video, embellishment, sound, animation, text to speech and, dynamic search. An Internet application facilitates annotation, organization, researching and sharing images and corresponding information collected at different times and places. Desktop/Internet applications link and relate images that share common elements. The same person found as a child in one image, as an adult in another, and referenced in a newspaper article is a relation example. The method collects the knowledge embedded in multiple images and produces well documented, organized, and clearly explained printable images, as well as dynamic albums of related images.
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1. A computer-implemented digital photo organizing and tagging method, comprising the steps of:
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storing digital images into a database of computer digital images supplied by a user, thereby retaining stored digital images in the computer database; displaying the stored digital images on a display device; accepting into the computer database descriptions of the digital images displayed on the display device, the descriptions being supplied by the user; tagging the digital images with the descriptions, thereby producing tagged digital image objects; replacing in the computer database the stored digital images with e tagged digital image objects; displaying the tagged digital image objects, including the tagging descriptions on the display device; creating key indices in the database, the key indices being based on the descriptions and selectively associated with the tagged digital image objects according to input from the user, the key indices allowing the user to update, sort, search and arrange into digital albums the tagged digital image objects in the computer database; randomly selecting the key indices, thereby building a set of randomly selected key indices; and displaying in a predetermined structural pattern tagged digital image objects specified by the randomly selected key indices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. The computer-implemented digital photo organizing and tagging method according to claim I, further comprising the step of granting access to said database based on membership status of said user.
- 11. The computer-implemented digital photo organizing and tagging method according to claim I, further comprising the step of causing said key indices to be displayed in the form of key words on said display device.
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