SMART GALLERY AND AUTOMATIC MUSIC VIDEO CREATION FROM A SET OF PHOTOS

• US 20140320697A1
• Filed: 04/25/2013
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Lammers, Michael J., Chau, Seang Y.
• Granted Patent: US 9,369,662 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/231.99
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/24 Classification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/036 Insert-editing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00198 Creation of a soft photo presentation, e.g. digital slide-show
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

Various embodiments provide a so-called smart gallery that is designed to create a short summary view of a collection of content, such as photographs and video. The content can be prioritized and presented in a smart gallery user interface that includes gallery elements that can be sized in accordance with prioritized content. Prioritization can take place based on whether content is manually captured or automatically captured. Alternately or additionally, prioritization can take place based on content analysis that looks at content quality and/or objects that appear in the content.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

receiving content that has been captured by a camera;

analyzing the content to ascertain whether the content has been manually captured or automatically captured;

responsive to the content being automatically captured, assigning a low importance level to the content;

responsive to the content being manually captured, assigning a high importance level to the content; and

enabling presentation of the content in a gallery in accordance with the importance level of the content.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein said enabling presentation comprises enabling presentation of manually captured content in gallery elements that are larger than gallery elements used to present automatically captured content.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein said enabling presentation comprises enabling presentation of the content as a music video slideshow.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein said enabling presentation comprises enabling presentation of the content in chronological order.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the content includes both photographs and video.

6. One or more computer readable storage memories comprising computer readable instructions which, when executed, implement a method comprising:

receiving content that has been captured by a camera;

processing the content using one or more image processing techniques;

assigning priority values to the content based on said image processing techniques;

using the priority values to define a gallery view layout; and

causing gallery elements to be populated with prioritized content.

7. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 6, wherein said using comprises defining which content is to appear in the gallery view layout.

8. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 6, wherein said using comprises defining sizes of gallery elements that comprise the gallery view layout.

9. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 6, wherein said one or more image processing techniques are configured to process the content in an attempt to identify faces or facial expressions.

10. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 6, wherein said one or more image processing techniques are configured to process the content to identify similarity between individual pieces of content.

11. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 6, wherein said one or more image processing techniques are configured to analyze the quality of the content.

12. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 6, wherein said one or more image processing techniques are configured to analyze whether the content is blurred.

13. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 6, wherein the gallery view layout comprises gallery elements having different sizes, and wherein said causing comprises causing higher priority content to be populated in larger gallery elements than lower-prioritized content.

14. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 6, wherein the gallery elements are configured to hold multiple pieces of content.

15. A computing device comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more computer readable media embodying computer readable instructions which, when executed, implement a method comprising;

receiving content that has been captured by a camera;

image processing the content to ascertain image quality and to detect objects in the content;

assigning priority values to the content based on said image processing;

using the priority values to define a gallery view layout; and

causing gallery elements to be populated with prioritized content, individual gallery elements being configured to contain multiple pieces of content, said content being presented in a chronological order.

16. The computing device of claim 15, wherein individual gallery elements are assigned a sub-range of a time continuum that corresponds to the captured content.

17. The computing device of claim 15, wherein the gallery elements have different sizes based on priorities of the content contained therein.

18. The computing device of claim 15, wherein at least some gallery elements are configured to advance through content contained therein.

19. The computing device of claim 15, wherein at least some gallery elements are configured to enable user interaction therewith.

20. The computing device of claim 15, wherein the content can include both photographs and video.