Systems, methods, and computer program products for displaying images

• US 9,280,565 B1
• Filed: 10/03/2014
• Issued: 03/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EyeEm Mobile GmbH
• Original Assignee: EyeEm Mobile GmbH
• Inventors: Rizk, Ramzi, Shaji, Appu
• Primary Examiner(s): Yeh, Eueng-Nan
• Application Number:
  US14/506,097
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• 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 16/587 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/211 Selection of the most significant subset of features
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/2113 by ranking or filtering the set of features, e.g. using a measure of variance or of feature cross-correlation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/28 involving image processing hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10004 Still image; Photographic image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10024 Color image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20081 Training; Learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30168 Image quality inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/36 Level of detail
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/40 using histogram techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/92 based on global image properties
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0002 Inspection of images, e.g. flaw detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/771 Feature selection, e.g. selecting representative features from a multi-dimensional feature space
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/00 Scenes; Scene-specific elements control of digital cameras H04N23/60

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product for displaying a plurality of images. A method of the present invention includes storing image-associated metadata for each image. The method further includes storing user-associated metadata for each user. The method further includes creating a graph comprising the plurality of images, based on the image-associated and user-associated metadata. The method further includes processing the plurality of images based on the graph to generate a subset of the plurality of images. The method further includes displaying the subset of the plurality of images.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a plurality of images, comprising:

a plurality of images;

a plurality of users;

for each image, storing image-associated metadata, the image-associated metadata comprising a photographer identifier, an aesthetic score, and at least one of;

a plurality of tags;

a plurality of albums;

a plurality of comments;

a location information;

a time information;

a weather information;

a plurality of event information wherein the event information concerns events that occurred near at least one of the location information and the time information;

a history of views;

a history of likes;

a history of purchases; and

a plurality of computer-generated information;

for each user, storing user-associated metadata, the user-associated metadata comprising a photographer score, an aggregate-image score, a plurality of impact scores, and at least one of a gender, an age, and an activity history;

creating a graph comprising the plurality of images, wherein the graph is based on the image-associated metadata and the user-associated metadata;

processing the plurality of images based on the graph to generate a subset of the plurality of images; and

displaying the subset of the plurality of images.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing the plurality of images comprises:

receiving a search query from a user; and

generating a rank-sorted list of images based on the search query, wherein the rank-sorted list of images is ordered based on the image-associated metadata, the user-associated metadata, and the graph comprising the plurality of images.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising filtering the rank-sorted list of images based on the search query by at least one of the user-associated metadata and the image-associated metadata.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing the plurality of images comprises:

receiving a request from a user;

generating, in response to the request, a recommendation to the user based on the graph, the plurality of image-associated metadata, and the plurality of user-associated metadata.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the recommendation is a plurality of photographer-identifiers.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

sorting the plurality of photographer-identifiers based on information known about the user.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the recommendation is a subset of the plurality of images.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

sorting the subset of the plurality of images based on information known about the user.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein the recommendation is a subset of the plurality of users.

10. The method of claim 4, wherein the request is a search request.

11. The method of claim 4, wherein the recommendation is further based on user-associated metadata belonging to the user.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing the plurality of images comprises:

identifying a subset of the plurality of images;

sorting the subset based on the aesthetic scores associated with the images comprising the subset.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the subset consists of images with similar associated location information.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the subset consists of images with similar associated pluralities of tags.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

periodically updating the graph in response to at least one of new user-associated metadata and image-associated metadata.

16. A device for displaying a plurality of images, comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor;

a network interface coupled to the process;

a plurality of users; and

a plurality of images;

wherein the processor is configured to;

store, for each image, image-associated metadata, the image-associated metadata comprising a photographer identifier, an aesthetic score, and at least one of;

a plurality of tags;

a plurality of albums;

a plurality of comments;

a location information;

a time information;

a weather information;

a plurality of event information wherein the event information concerns events that occurred near at least one of the location information and the time information;

a history of views;

a history of likes;

a history of purchases; and

a plurality of computer-generated information;

store, for each user, user-associated metadata, the user-associated metadata comprising a photographer score, an aggregate-image score, a plurality of impact scores, and at least one of a gender, an age, and an activity history;

create a graph comprising the plurality of images, wherein the graph is based on the image-associated metadata and the user-associated metadata;

process the plurality of images based on the graph to generate a subset of the plurality of images; and

display the subset of the plurality of images.

17. A computer program product for displaying a plurality of images, said computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer readable program code embodied in the medium, said computer program product comprising:

a plurality of images;

a plurality of users; and

program code for storing, for each image, image-associated metadata, the image-associated metadata comprising a photographer identifier, an aesthetic score, and at least one of;

a plurality of tags;

a plurality of albums;

a plurality of comments;

a location information;

a time information;

a weather information;

a plurality of event information wherein the event information concerns events that occurred near at least one of the location information and the time information;

a history of views;

a history of likes;

a history of purchases; and

a plurality of computer-generated information;

program code for storing, for each user, user-associated metadata, the user-associated metadata comprising a photographer score, an aggregate-image score, a plurality of impact scores, and at least one of a gender, an age, and an activity history;

program code for creating a graph comprising the plurality of images, wherein the graph is based on the image-associated metadata and the user-associated metadata;

program code for processing the plurality of images based on the graph to generate a subset of the plurality of images; and

program code for displaying the subset of the plurality of images.