Display device content selection through viewer identification and affinity prediction
First Claim
1. A computer implemented method comprising:
- obtaining information identifying a reference person;
obtaining information identifying a collection of images associated with the reference person;
obtaining information identifying a social relationship between the reference person and one of a plurality of other subjects that appear in the collection of images;
obtaining a subject affinity defining a subject affinity score between the reference person and the one of the plurality of other subjects based on the identified social relationship between the reference person and the one of the plurality of other subjects, the plurality of other subjects corresponding to subjects other than the reference person;
determining an image affinity for each of a plurality of images in the collection of images based on the subject affinity for the one of the plurality of other subjects, each image affinity defining an image affinity score between the reference person and a corresponding one of the plurality of images based on the one of the plurality of other subjects appearing in the image;
selecting at least one image from the plurality of images based on the image affinities of the plurality of images, the at least one image comprising the one of the plurality of other subjects; and
effecting presentation of the at least one image on a display of a display device.
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Abstract
Method and device are described for customizing the content selection to present on a display device based on identifying the viewer of the device. In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to selecting from among a group of digital images, those images that are most likely to be of interest to the viewer. In general, many of the images available to the display device will be comprised of images containing subject faces. Using the relationship information to predict subject affinity, the display device computes an image affinity for each image by accumulating the individual subject affinity predictions between the viewer and each subject identified in each image. The image affinities are used to select images for presentation on the display device.
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30 Claims
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1. A computer implemented method comprising:
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obtaining information identifying a reference person; obtaining information identifying a collection of images associated with the reference person; obtaining information identifying a social relationship between the reference person and one of a plurality of other subjects that appear in the collection of images; obtaining a subject affinity defining a subject affinity score between the reference person and the one of the plurality of other subjects based on the identified social relationship between the reference person and the one of the plurality of other subjects, the plurality of other subjects corresponding to subjects other than the reference person; determining an image affinity for each of a plurality of images in the collection of images based on the subject affinity for the one of the plurality of other subjects, each image affinity defining an image affinity score between the reference person and a corresponding one of the plurality of images based on the one of the plurality of other subjects appearing in the image; selecting at least one image from the plurality of images based on the image affinities of the plurality of images, the at least one image comprising the one of the plurality of other subjects; and effecting presentation of the at least one image on a display of a display device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A device comprising:
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a communication interface communicatively coupling the device to a central system; and a control system comprising at least one processor and a memory storing program codes operable to; obtain information identifying a reference person; obtain information identifying a collection of images associated with the reference person; obtain information identifying a social relationship between the reference person and one of a plurality of other subjects that appear in the collection of images; obtain a subject affinity defining a subject affinity score between the reference person and the one of the plurality of other subjects based on the identified social relationship between the reference person and the one of the plurality of other subjects, the plurality of other subjects corresponding to subjects other than the reference person; determine an image affinity for each of a plurality of images in the collection of images based on the subject affinity for the one of the plurality of other subjects, each image affinity defining an image affinity score between the reference person and a corresponding one of the plurality of images based on the one of the plurality of other subjects appearing in the image; select at least one image from the plurality of images based on the image affinities of the plurality of images, the at least one image comprising the one of the plurality of other subjects; and effect presentation of the at least one image on a display of a display device.
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30. A computer implemented method comprising:
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using at least a processor and memory for; obtaining information identifying a reference person; obtaining information identifying a plurality of images owned by the reference person; obtaining a subject affinity for an other subject that appears in the plurality of images, the subject affinity defining a subject affinity score between the reference person the other subject based on the identity of the other subject; determining an image affinity for each of the plurality of images based on the subject affinity, each image affinity defining an image affinity score between the reference person and a corresponding one of the plurality of images; and selecting at least one image from the plurality of images based on the image affinities of the plurality of images, the at least one image comprising the other subject and the reference person.
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