Method for media reliving on demand

• US 9,082,452 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2011
• Issued: 07/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Inventors: Lou, Jiebo, Joshi, Dhiraj, Stubler, Peter O., Das, Madirakshi, Lei, Phoury, Singh, Vivek Kumar
• Primary Examiner(s): Dang, Hung
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wendmagegn, Girumsew
• Application Number:
  US13/031,343
• Publication Number:
  US 20120213497A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,604 Days
• Field of Search: 386/342, 386/E05.028
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/434 using image data, e.g. images, photos, pictures taken by a user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/489 using time information
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel

Abstract

A method for viewing a collection of images or videos, includes analyzing the collection to determine properties of the images or videos and using the determined properties to produce icons corresponding to such properties; providing a time-varying display of the images or videos in the collection following an ordering of the images or videos in the collection and at least one of the corresponding icons; receiving a user selection of an icon; and changing the display of the images or videos in the collection following a reordering of the images or videos in the collection in response to the user selection.

Claims

1. A method for interactively viewing a collection of images, comprising:

displaying on a user-interface system one or more images of the collection in an initial time-variable sequence along with one or more icons, wherein each of the icons corresponds to a criterion for reordering the time-variable sequence;

reordering the time-variable sequence in response to a user selection of an icon;

computing a suitability score for each image in the collection of images, wherein suitability score depends at least on the criterion corresponding to the icon selected by the user;

restricting any low-suitability images from being displayed in the reordered time-variable sequence, wherein a low-suitability image is an image in the collection with a suitability score below a predetermined threshold; and

displaying on the user-interface system one or more images of the collection according to the reordered time-variable sequence along with one or more icons.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the collection of images includes digital still images, digital audio files, digital video files, or frames of a digital video.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of displaying the one or more images of the collection in an initial time-variable sequence continues until a user selects an icon.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

analyzing the collection of images to determine properties of the images;

using the determined properties to produce the one or more icons; and

ordering the initial time-variable sequence according to a predetermined property.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the reordering is also responsive to prior user selections.

6. The method of claim 1 further including storing in a processor accessible memory the display of the one or more images of the collection according to the initial and reordered time-variable sequence.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the stored display of the one or more images is used to produce a movie, photo pages, or a photo book.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the stored display of the one or more images is transmitted over a communication network.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the display of the one or more images in the collection according to both the initial time-variable sequence and the reordered time-variable sequence is presented as page layouts of images or videos with transition effects.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the display of the one or more images in the collection according to the reordered time-variable sequence is presented with accompanying music responsive to the user selection of the icon.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the criteria to which the one or more icons correspond comprises:

the places where the images in the collection have been taken;

the people who are present in the images in the collection;

the date and time information when the images in the collection were captured; and

the events captured by the images in the collection.