Tagging Images in a Mobile Communications Device Using a Contacts List
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1. A computerized method for tagging an image captured by a mobile communications device, comprising:
- capturing an image with a camera integrated in the device in response to a command from a user;
processing the image in the device to designate an area in the image that contains a face;
accessing a contact list of the user that is stored in the portable electronic device;
comparing the designated area with contact images of the user'"'"'s contacts, obtained from accessing the contact list stored in the device, to determine identity of the face in the designated area; and
in response to the comparing, tagging the image with identification information of a matching contact.
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Abstract
An improved image tagging system that tags images in a mobile handheld communications device, based on the user'"'"'s contacts list stored therein. The image tagging system compares a face in a given picture (that the user has just taken using the built-in camera) to faces in the user'"'"'s contacts list images. A matching contact is found in the contacts list. The picture is then tagged with information from the matching contact. The picture is tagged by inserting identification information into a header of the picture.
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1. A computerized method for tagging an image captured by a mobile communications device, comprising:
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capturing an image with a camera integrated in the device in response to a command from a user; processing the image in the device to designate an area in the image that contains a face; accessing a contact list of the user that is stored in the portable electronic device; comparing the designated area with contact images of the user'"'"'s contacts, obtained from accessing the contact list stored in the device, to determine identity of the face in the designated area; and in response to the comparing, tagging the image with identification information of a matching contact. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An article of manufacture comprising:
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a machine readable computer storage medium having stored instructions that program a mobile communications device to process an image stored in the device in accordance with a face recognition algorithm that can detect a face in the image, compare the detected face to face signatures belonging to a plurality of contacts in a contacts list of a user that is previously stored in the device, and in response to the comparison, tag the image with identification information of one of the plurality of contacts whose face signature is sufficiently close to the detected face in the image. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system comprising:
a mobile handheld communications device having a camera, a face detector to process an image captured by the camera, to designate an area in the image that contains a face, a contacts list retriever to access a contact list of a user that is stored in the device, a comparator to compare the designated area in the image with face signatures of the user'"'"'s contacts obtained from accessing the contact list stored in the device, to determine the identity of the face in the designated area of the image, and a tagger to tag the image with identification information of a matching face signature in response to an output of the comparator. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A mobile communications device, comprising:
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a means for capturing an image; a means for processing the image to designate an area in the image that contains a face; a means for retrieving a contacts list of a user that is stored in the device; a means for comparing the designated area in the image with face signatures of the user'"'"'s contacts obtained from retrieving the contact list stored in the device, to determine the identity of the face in the designated area of the image; and a means for tagging the image with identification information of a matching face signature in response to an output of the means for comparing. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25)
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