Image curation

• US 9,317,890 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2015
• Issued: 04/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Canan, Ramona P., Yoo, Dahey, Chan, Chunkit J., Rosenstein, Daniel, Romashka, Ivan D., Peth, Ian N., Avery, Adam K., Zlateff, Carmen, Weed, Bradley G., Mehendale, Omkar Anand
• Primary Examiner(s): Richer, Joni
• Application Number:
  US14/746,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20150287162A1
• Time in Patent Office: 302 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/20 Processor architectures; Processor configuration, e.g. pipelining
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/30 in albums, collections or shared content, e.g. social network photos or video
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/02 Networking aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092

Abstract

Image curation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, one or more modules are launched for execution on a computing device. Responsive to the launch, criteria are generated automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules by a computing device. Images are curated using the generated criteria automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules, the curated images identified from a plurality of different image sources that are associated with a user. The curated images are caused to be displayed by a display device of the computing device automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more computer-readable storage memories having instructions stored thereon; and

one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

launching an application for execution on a computing device;

responsive to the launching, automatically, and without user intervention;

generating image curation criteria;

curating images associated with a user using the generated image curation criteria; and

causing the curated images and an indicator of the criteria to be displayed by a display device of the computing device.

2. A system as described in claim 1, wherein the application is part of an operating system and the launching is performed responsive to selection of an option by the user to output the curated images.

3. A system as described in claim 1, wherein the criteria specify an analysis of one or more pixels of corresponding said images that is to be performed.

4. A system as described in claim 1, wherein the criteria correspond to metadata associated with the images.

5. A system as described in claim 1, wherein the curating is performed through execution of the application for at least one said image that is accessible remotely via a network to identify the at least one said image without downloading the at least one said image.

6. A system as described in claim 5, wherein the at least one said image is downloaded responsive to identification of the image using the criteria.

7. A system as described in claim 1, wherein the curating of the images includes:

identifying the images automatically and without user intervention;

selecting a subset of the identified images to be displayed automatically and without user intervention;

matching one or more of the selected subset of images to positions in an image layout automatically and without user intervention; and

replacing display of at least one of the selected subset of images in the image layout automatically and without user intervention.

8. A system as described in claim 7, further comprising generating additional criteria after passage of a predefined amount of time and curating additional images responsive to the generating of the additional criteria.

9. A system as described in claim 8, wherein the generation of the additional criteria is based at least in part on the criteria that was previously generated.

10. A system as described in claim 7, wherein the replacing is performed for a first said image in the layout and is not performed for a second said image in the layout at a same point in time, the first and second said images being displayed concurrently at a previous point in time.

11. A system as described in claim 1, wherein a source of the images is accessible remotely via the network using credentials of the user that are stored on the computing device.

12. A system as described in claim 11, wherein the credentials are accessible upon login of the user to the computing device.

13. A system as described in claim 1, wherein the images include still images or video images.

14. A system comprising:

one or more computer-readable storage memories having instructions stored thereon; and

one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

generating criteria responsive to initiating, without user intervention, execution of an application comprising the instructions;

responsive to the generating and without user intervention, identifying images that are associated with a user;

responsive to the identifying and without user intervention, selecting a subset of the identified images for display;

responsive to the selecting and without user intervention, displaying the selected subset of the identified images in an image layout, the image layout including a description of at least one of the generated criteria used to identify at least one image being displayed in the image layout.

15. A system as described in claim 14, wherein at least one of the criteria are based on people, time, or location.

16. A system as described in claim 14, wherein at least one of the criteria are people based on pixels included in the images.

17. A method comprising:

launching an application for execution on a computing device;

responsive to launching the application, curating images using criteria that are generated automatically and without user intervention; and

responsive to the curating, causing the curated images to be displayed by a display device automatically and without user intervention, the curated images displayed according to a layout such that at least two or more of the curate images are displayed concurrently, the layout including a description of at least one of the generated criteria used to identify at least one of the curated images being displayed according to the layout.

18. A method as described in claim 17, wherein the layout does not include preconfigured borders that are visible to a user when viewing the layout.

19. A method as described in claim 17, wherein the application is part of an operating system and the launching is performed responsive to selection of an option by the user to output the curated images.

20. A method as described in claim 17, wherein the images include still images or video images.