IMAGE ORGANIZATION BY DATE

• US 20150324395A1
• Filed: 05/11/2015
• Published: 11/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lyve Minds, Inc. (Seagate Technology Holdings Plc)
• Original Assignee: Lyve Minds, Inc. (Seagate Technology Holdings Plc)
• Inventors: Arnold, Kevin, Ma, Jeff, Lee, Justin, Pope, David
• Application Number:
  US14/709,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20150324395A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/148 File search processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/74 Browsing; Visualisation therefor end-user interfaces for requesting or interacting with video content, e.g. video on demand interfaces or electronic program guides, H04N21/472
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/787 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location

Abstract

Embodiments described herein include systems and methods for organizing and displaying images (or videos or stacks of images) by day, week, month and/or holiday regardless of the current year or the year the images were captured. For example, a method for displaying images may include determining a current day of a current year using a processor of an electronic device; selecting a first plurality of images stored in a memory having a capture day that is within a first time period surrounding the current day and a capture year that is different than the current year; and displaying the first plurality of images through a user interface of the electronic device.

Claims

1. A mobile device comprising:

a display;

a memory storing a plurality of images; and

a processor communicatively coupled with the display and the memory, the processor configured to;

determine a current day and a current year;

search metadata associated with the plurality of images in the memory for at least a first image having a capture day that is within a first time period surrounding the current day and a capture year that is different than the current year; and

present the first subset of the plurality of images on the display.

2. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein the first time period comprises a time period selected from the group consisting of half a day, a day, half a week, a week, half a month, and a month

3. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein the capture day and the capture year are associated with the date the image was recorded.

4. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein the images comprise digital files selected from the list consisting of photos, digital images, videos, video clips, and video frames.

5. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one first image includes a first plurality of images, and at least a first subset of the first plurality of images are displayed as a stack of images.

6. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

select a second plurality of images from the memory having a capture day that is within a second time period surrounding the current day and a capture year that is different than the current year, wherein the second time period is longer than the first time period; and

present the second subset of the plurality of images on the display.

7. The mobile device according to claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to:

select a third plurality of images from the memory having a capture day that is within a third time period surrounding the current day and a capture year that is different than the current year, wherein the third time period is longer than the first time period and longer than the first period of time; and

present the third subset of the plurality of images on the display.

8. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine whether the current day of the current year is associated with a holiday;

select a fourth plurality of images from the memory having a capture day and/or a capture year that is associated with the holiday; and

present the fourth subset of the plurality of images on the display.

9. A method comprising:

determining a current day of a current year using a processor of an electronic device;

searching metadata of a plurality of images stored in memory of the electronic device for one or more images having a capture day that is within a first time period surrounding the current day and a capture year that is different than the current year; and

displaying the first plurality of images through a user interface of the electronic device.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the first time period comprises a time period selected from the group consisting of half a day, a day, half a week, a week, half a month, and a month.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the capture day and the capture year are associated with the date the image was recorded.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the images comprise digital files selected from the list consisting of photos, digital images, videos, video clips, and video frames.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein at least a first subset of the first plurality of images are displayed as a stack of images.

14. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

searching metadata of the plurality of images stored in the memory of the electronic device for one or more second images having a capture day that is within a first time period surrounding the current day and a capture year that is different than the current year; and

displaying the one or more second images through a user interface of the electronic device.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising:

searching metadata of the plurality of images stored in the memory of the electronic device for one or more third images having a capture day that is within a first time period surrounding the current day and a capture year that is different than the current year; and

displaying the one or more third images through a user interface of the electronic device.

16. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

determining whether the current day of the current year is associated with a holiday using the processor of the electronic device;

searching metadata of the plurality of images stored in the memory of the electronic device for one or more fourth images having a capture day that is within a first time period surrounding the current day and a capture year that is different than the current year; and

displaying the one or more fourth images through a user interface of the electronic device.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having encoded therein programming code executable by a processor to perform operations comprising:

determining a current day of a current year using a processor of an electronic device;

searching metadata of the plurality of images stored in the memory of the electronic device for one or more second images having a capture day that is within a first time period surrounding the current day and a capture year that is different than the current year; and

displaying the one or more second images through a user interface of the electronic device.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the first time period comprises a time period selected from the group consisting of half a day, a day, half a week, a week, half a month, and a month

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the capture day and the capture year are associated with the date the image was recorded.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the images comprise digital files selected from the list consisting of photos, digital images, videos, video clips, and video frames.