Asynchronous art jurying system

• US 8,657,606 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2005
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Paul Fisher
• Original Assignee: Paul Fisher
• Inventors: Fisher, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Yip, Jack
• Application Number:
  US11/174,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20060003302A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,157 Days
• Field of Search: 434/306, 434/350, 358/1.18, 358/448, 358/450, 358/452, 358/453, 345/619, 345/620, 345/625, 348/231.2, 348/231.99
• US Class Current: 434/306
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• 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: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering

Abstract

A remote art jurying system in which art jurors independently evaluate works of art at different locations, times and places. A central database presents information about each work of art and/or the artist to an individual juror. The database provides images of the artwork along with relevant information. Each juror can access the database independent of other jurors in terms of location, or time. The system provides enhanced voting methods. The juror can review or change their votes at any time prior to final submission. They can review all works of art, by categories of art, or by scores. The juror reviews artwork thumbnail images, which can be used to select high resolution images with extended information. Selected categories of art can be enhanced by eliminating the lowest scores to balance artwork finalists across multiple categories of art. An online artist'"'"'s application system is integrated with an image portfolio management system which allows artists to maintain permanent portfolio copies which can be electronically attached to applications. The system can be used for jurying art or other types of competitive ratings.

Claims

1. A jurying system for evaluating works of art, comprising:

at least one database storing images of artwork of a plurality of artists and information regarding individual pieces of artwork and individual artists;

a computer system in communication with the database and asynchronously accessible by a plurality of remotely located juror terminals that automatically captures and records data related to juror activity, the data comprising frequency of review, jurors average vote overall, average vote score per category, and how many applications were viewed in each voting round;

wherein the computer system is accessible by an artist;

for adding, deleting and rearranging individual pieces of the artist'"'"'s artwork in at least one portfolio for submission as an entry to a competition, each portfolio comprising a plurality of images of individual pieces of the artist'"'"'s artwork, and

for entry of information regarding said individual pieces of the artist'"'"'s artwork and the artist for creating a portfolio as an entry to a competition;

wherein the computer system displays the portfolio as a presentation of the selected plurality of images of individual pieces of the artist'"'"'s artwork and information correlated to the artwork and the artist at a remote terminal for evaluation of the portfolio by a juror;

wherein the order of display of the individual pieces of the artist'"'"'s artwork in the portfolio to the juror is determined by the artist online using the computer system.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the database includes at least one portfolio database, the portfolio database containing at least one portfolio of artwork for the artist.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the computer system receives artist designations of individual images of artwork from all images to create a portfolio, the portfolio selectable by the artist to submit as an entry formatted in a presentation order selected by the artist.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the computer system is configured such that the juror may pause their evaluation of the entries and request fellow jurors at remote terminals to review a particular entry and communicate with fellow jurors through the computer system.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the computer system is configured to present entries of artist presentations by category of the artwork.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the computer system displays the information regarding an individual piece of artwork and an individual artist simultaneously when an image of artwork is displayed.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the computer system is configured such that a juror cannot advance to another entry before evaluating a currently displayed entry.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the computer system is configured to accept juror evaluations of entries within a single category of artwork before accepting evaluations of entries in a different category.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the computer system is configured to accept votes of individual art exhibit attendees, the vote of the individual art exhibit attendees being correlated to a unique identifier provided to the attendee at the time of admission purchase.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the computer system determines whether each artist associated with each of the plurality of entries is either a winner or a non-winner of the competition based on finalized evaluations from the jurors.

11. A jurying system for evaluating works of art, comprising:

at least one database storing images of artwork of a plurality of artists and information regarding individual pieces of artwork and individual artists;

a computer system in communication with the database and asynchronously accessible by a plurality of remotely located juror terminals that automatically captures and records data related to juror activity, the data comprising frequency of review, jurors average vote overall, average vote score per category, and how many applications were viewed in each voting round;

wherein the computer system is accessible by an artist for adding, deleting and rearranging individual pieces of the artist'"'"'s artwork as an entry to a competition, and entry of information regarding said individual pieces of the artist'"'"'s artwork;

wherein the computer system displays the entry as a presentation of a plurality of pieces of the artist'"'"'s artwork and information correlated to the artwork and the artist at a remote terminal for evaluation by a juror;

wherein the database includes at least one portfolio database, the portfolio database containing at least one portfolio of the artist'"'"'s artwork for the artist and the computer system configured to receive artist designations of individual images of the artist'"'"'s artwork from all images to create a portfolio, the portfolio selectable by the artist to submit as an entry formatted in a presentation selected by the artist;

wherein the order of display of the individual pieces of the artist'"'"'s artwork in the presentation of an entry to the juror is determined by the artist online using the computer system; and

wherein the computer system displays the information regarding an individual piece of the artist'"'"'s artwork and an individual artist simultaneously when an image of artwork is displayed; and

wherein the computer system notifies each artist associated with each of the plurality of entries that they are either a winner or a non-winner of the competition.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the computer system is configured to present entries of artist presentations by category of the artwork.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the computer system is configured such that a juror cannot advance to another entry before evaluating a currently displayed entry.

14. The system according to claim 11, wherein the data related to juror activity further comprises timing of each vote, number of enlarged images each juror reviewed for each vote, how far jurors diverged in their voting, and how many rounds were required to reach the final winner'"'"'s list.

15. A method of providing a jurying system for evaluating works of art, comprising a computer system, comprising at least one database for storage of images of artwork, for performing the steps of:

receiving at least one image of an artist'"'"'s artwork of a plurality of artists;

receiving information regarding each image of artwork and each artist;

storing the at least one image of the artist'"'"'s artwork and the information regarding the artist'"'"'s artwork and the artist in a database;

receiving artist instructions adding, deleting or rearranging individual pieces of the artist'"'"'s artwork in a portfolio;

creating an application for submission as an artist'"'"'s entry to a competition in response to receiving artist selections of individual pieces of the artist'"'"'s artwork from at least one portfolio and information regarding the artwork and the artist;

receiving artist instructions designating a presentation display order for the individual pieces of the artist'"'"'s artwork included in the artist'"'"'s entry;

displaying the artist'"'"'s entry to a juror located at a remote terminal for evaluation;

displaying a plurality of artist entries on a single screen for evaluation by the juror in the order designated by the artist;

organizing the plurality of entries in a customized sequence for comparison in response to juror input;

receiving a juror evaluation of an artist'"'"'s entry;

pausing a presentation of an artist'"'"'s entry in response to juror input;

routing communications regarding the artist'"'"'s entry between jurors located at different remote terminals; and

automatically capturing and recording data related to juror activity, the data comprising frequency of review, jurors average vote overall, average vote score per category, and how many applications were viewed in each voting round.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising the step of presenting entries of artist presentations by category of the artwork.

17. The method according to claim 15, further comprising the step of displaying the information regarding the individual piece of artwork and the artist simultaneously when an image of artwork is displayed to a juror.

18. The method according to claim 15, further comprising the step of preventing a juror from advancing to another entry before evaluating a currently displayed entry.

19. The method according to claim 18, further comprising the step of accept juror evaluations of entries within a single category of artwork before accepting evaluations of entries in a different category.

20. The method according to claim 15, further comprising the step of tabulating votes of individual art exhibit attendees, the vote of the individual art exhibit attendees being correlated to a unique identifier provided to the attendee at the time of admission purchase.

21. The method according to claim 15, further comprising, notifying each of the plurality of artists that submitted entries that they are either a winner or a non-winner of the competition.

22. The system according to claim 15, wherein the data related to juror activity further comprises timing of each vote, number of enlarged images each juror reveiwed for each vote, how far jurors diverged in their voting, and how many rounds were required to reach the final winner'"'"'s list.