Photo selection for mobile devices

• US 9,792,876 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2016
• Issued: 10/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Xie, Tao, Johnson, Michael Dudley
• Primary Examiner(s): McDowell, Jr., Maurice L
• Application Number:
  US15/135,340
• Publication Number:
  US 20160232873A1
• Time in Patent Office: 544 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2218/00 Aspects of pattern recognition specially adapted for signal processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/02 Affine transformations for image registration G06T3/147; for image mosaicing G06T3/4038
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/60 Rotation of whole images or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/172 Classification, e.g. identification
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/02 Handling of images in compressed format, e.g. JPEG, MPEG
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0442 Handling or displaying different aspect ratios, or changing the aspect ratio
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0471 Vertical positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0478 Horizontal positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/08 Details of image data interface between the display device controller and the data line driver circuit
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/10 Use of a protocol of communication by packets in interfaces along the display data pipeline
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/00 Specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/005 Adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/38 with means for controlling the display position
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

In one embodiment, a computing device receives a request from a mobile device of a user for an image. The computing device determines whether the user is associated with a preferred orientation for viewing an image. The preferred orientation is determined based on the user'"'"'s usage patterns with respect to a particular application of the mobile device, or to the user'"'"'s interactions with a social-networking system. If the user is associated with a preferred orientation, the image is adjusted to have the preferred orientation and to match display capabilities of the mobile device sending the request. The adjusted image is sent to the mobile device for display.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by one or more computing devices, receiving a request for an image from a mobile device associated with a user;

by one or more computing devices, determining whether the user is associated with a preferred orientation for viewing an image;

by one or more computing devices, if the user is associated with a preferred orientation, then adjusting the image based on one or more display capabilities of the mobile device, wherein the image is adjusted to have the preferred orientation; and

by one or more computing devices, sending the adjusted image to the mobile device for display.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising if the user is not associated with a preferred orientation, then adjusting the image based on one or more display capabilities of the mobile device, wherein the adjusting comprises creating a first version of the image in a portrait orientation and a second version of the image in a landscape orientation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the preferred orientation is determined based on a usage pattern corresponding to the user.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the preferred orientation is determined by the usage pattern corresponding to the user for a particular application of the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the preferred orientation is stored in a data store of the one or more computing devices.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the request comprises an identifier of the mobile device; and

the one or more display capabilities of the mobile device are determined by accessing, based at least in part on the identifier of the mobile device, one or more data stores for the one or more display capabilities of the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting the image further comprises:

identifying one or more objects displayed in the image;

determining a relevance of each object in the image to the user associated with the mobile device; and

including in or excluding from the image as adjusted one or more of the objects based on their relevance to the user.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein:

the one or more identified objects are associated with one or more tagged regions of the image; and

including in or excluding from the image as adjusted one or more of the objects comprises including or excluding the associated tagged region of the image.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein:

each of one or more of the objects is a person; and

the relevance of a person comprises a social closeness between the user and the person in a social-networking system.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein:

each of one or more of the objects correspond to one or more nodes in a social graph of a social-networking system; and

the relevance of an object corresponding to one or more nodes in the social graph is based on an association between a node in the social graph corresponding to the user and one or more of the nodes in the social graph corresponding to the object.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting the image comprises:

scaling the image;

applying one or more filters to the image;

rotating the image;

or

cropping the image.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting the image is further based on location data indicating a geographic location of a user associated with the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

identifying one or more objects displayed in the image;

determining a geographic location of each object in the image;

comparing the geographic location of each object with the geographic location of the user; and

including in or excluding from the image as adjusted one or more of the objects based on the comparison of the geographic location of the object and the geographic location of the user.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting the image is further based at least in part on determining whether one or more elements will be overlaid on the image as displayed on the mobile device.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting the image is further based on image quality of the image.

16. One or more computer-readable non-transitory media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

receive a request for an image from a mobile device associated with a user;

determine whether the user is associated with a preferred orientation for viewing an image;

if the user is associated with a preferred orientation, then adjust the image based on one or more display capabilities of the mobile device, wherein the image is adjusted to have the preferred orientation; and

send the adjusted image to the mobile device for display.

17. The media of claim 16, further comprising if the user is not associated with a preferred orientation, then adjusting the image based on one or more display capabilities of the mobile device, wherein the adjusting comprises creating a first version of the image in a portrait orientation and a second version of the image in a landscape orientation.

18. The media of claim 16, wherein the preferred orientation is determined based on a usage pattern corresponding to the user.

19. The media of claim 18, wherein the preferred orientation is determined by the usage pattern corresponding to the user for a particular application of the mobile device.

20. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the processor comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors being operable when executing the instructions to;

receive a request for an image from a mobile device associated with a user;

determine whether the user is associated with a preferred orientation for viewing an image;

if the user is associated with a preferred orientation, then adjust the image based on one or more display capabilities of the mobile device, wherein the image is adjusted to have the preferred orientation; and

send the adjusted image to the mobile device for display.