Smart gallery and automatic music video creation from a set of photos

• US 10,020,024 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2016
• Issued: 07/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Lammers, Michael J., Chau, Seang Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): Diep, Trung
• Application Number:
  US15/160,738
• Publication Number:
  US 20160267944A1
• Time in Patent Office: 781 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/24 Classification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/036 Insert-editing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00198 Creation of a soft photo presentation, e.g. digital slide-show
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

Various embodiments provide a so-called smart gallery that is designed to create a short summary view of a collection of content, such as photographs and video. The content can be prioritized and presented in a smart gallery user interface that includes gallery elements that can be sized in accordance with prioritized content. Prioritization can take place based on whether content is manually captured or automatically captured. Alternately or additionally, prioritization can take place based on content analysis that looks at content quality and/or objects that appear in the content.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

receiving content that has been captured by a camera;

analyzing the content to ascertain whether the content has been manually captured or automatically captured;

responsive to the content being automatically captured, assigning a low importance level to the content;

responsive to the content being manually captured, assigning a high importance level to the content; and

enabling presentation of the content in a gallery in accordance with the importance level of the content.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein said enabling presentation comprises enabling presentation of manually captured content in gallery elements that are larger than gallery elements used to present automatically captured content.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein said enabling presentation comprises enabling presentation of the content as a music video slideshow.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein said enabling presentation comprises enabling presentation of the content in chronological order.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the content includes both photographs and video.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the camera comprises a wearable camera.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 6, wherein the content is automatically captured using a photo log feature that automatically captures content at particular time intervals.

8. A computing device comprising:

at least a memory and a processor to perform operations comprising;

analyzing content, that has been captured by a camera, to ascertain whether the content has been manually captured or automatically captured;

responsive to the content being automatically captured, assigning a low importance level to the content;

responsive to the content being manually captured, assigning a high importance level to the content; and

enabling presentation of the content in a gallery in accordance with the importance level of the content.

9. The computing device of claim 8, wherein said enabling presentation comprises enabling presentation of manually captured content in gallery elements that are larger than gallery elements used to present automatically captured content.

10. The computing device of claim 8, wherein said enabling presentation comprises enabling presentation of the content as a music video slideshow.

11. The computing device of claim 8, wherein said enabling presentation comprises enabling presentation of the content in chronological order.

12. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the content includes both photographs and video.

13. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the camera comprises a wearable camera.

14. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the content is automatically captured using a photo log feature that automatically captures content at particular time intervals.

15. One or more computer readable storage memories comprising computer readable instructions which, when executed, implement a method comprising:

analyzing content, that has been captured by a camera, to ascertain whether the content has been manually captured or automatically captured;

responsive to the content being automatically captured, assigning a low importance level to the content;

responsive to the content being manually captured, assigning a high importance level to the content; and

enabling presentation of the content in a gallery in accordance with the importance level of the content.

16. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 15, wherein said enabling presentation comprises enabling presentation of manually captured content in gallery elements that are larger than gallery elements used to present automatically captured content.

17. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 15, wherein said enabling presentation comprises enabling presentation of the content as a music video slideshow.

18. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 15, wherein said enabling presentation comprises enabling presentation of the content in chronological order.

19. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 15, wherein the content includes both photographs and video.

20. The one or more computer readable storage memories of claim 15, wherein the camera comprises a wearable camera.