Image Tagging User Interface

• US 20150016691A1
• Filed: 09/30/2014
• Published: 01/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Anbalagan, Karthik G., Ramsby, Scott R., Chan, Chunkit J., Kim, Michael H., Thornton, John M., O'Connor, Timothy R., Brodie, Alexander S., Pinson, Samuel J., Ferguson, Bryan P., Pisharathu, Aanand Narayanan, Kabir, Ryan A., Satchithanantham, Shanjeef, Richards, Eric, Doerr, Eric W., Sproule, William D., Morrissey, Shawn L., King, Mindy C.
• Application Number:
  US14/502,511
• Publication Number:
  US 20150016691A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30196 Human being; Person
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/30 in albums, collections or shared content, e.g. social network photos or video
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/70 Labelling scene content, e.g. deriving syntactic or semantic representations
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions

Abstract

An image having a region tagged by a first user is obtained. The tag can include a first label of a person in the region, and the label can be used by the first user to identify the person in the region. Then, a second label of the person is determined. In implementations, the second label is used by a second user to identify the person in the region. The image is then displayed with the second label when displaying the image for the second user.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining an image having a region tagged by a first user, the tag including a first label of a person in the region, the first label being used by the first user to identify the person in the region;

determining a second label of the person, the second label being used by a second user to identify the person in the region; and

displaying the image with the second label when displaying the image for the second user.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein determining the second label comprises accessing an address book to identify a name that the second user calls the first user.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, the second label being different than the first label.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising displaying the image with the first identifier when displaying the image for the first user.

5. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein determining the second label comprises:

comparing a hash value of an email address in the tag to hash values of one or more email addresses in an email address record of the second user;

identifying a name corresponding to a hash value of the email address in the email address record that is the same as the hash value of the email address in the tag; and

using the name as the second label.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein determining the second label comprises:

comparing an ID in the tag to one or more IDs in an ID record of the second user;

identifying a name corresponding to an ID in the ID record that is the same as the ID in the tag; and

using the name as the second label.

7. A computing device comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory storing executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to;

obtain an image having a region tagged by a first user with a tag that includes a first label of a person in the region, the first label being used by the first user to identify the person in the region;

determine a second label of the person, the second label being used by a second user to identify the person in the region; and

display the image with the second label when the image is displayed for the second user.

8. A computing device as recited in claim 7, wherein the second label is determined using to an address book to identify a name that the second user calls the first user.

9. A computing device as recited in claim 7, the second label being different than the first label.

10. A computing device as recited in claim 7, wherein the instructions are executable by the one or more processors further to display the image with the first identifier when displaying the image for the first user.

11. A computing device as recited in claim 7, wherein the second label is determined based on:

a comparison of a hash value of an email address in the tag to hash values of one or more email addresses in an email address record of the second user;

identification of a name corresponding to a hash value of the email address in the email address record that is the same as the hash value of the email address in the tag; and

use of the name as the second label.

12. A computing device as recited in claim 7, wherein the second label is determined based on:

a comparison of an ID in the tag to one or more IDs in an ID record of the second user;

identification of a name corresponding to an ID in the ID record that is the same as the ID in the tag; and

use of the name as the second label.

13. A system comprising:

one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware, the one or more modules configured to perform operations comprising;

obtaining an image having a region tagged by a first user, the tag including a first label of a person in the region, the first label being used by the first user to identify the person in the region when the image is displayed for the first person;

determining a second label of the person, the second label being used by a second user to identify the person in the region; and

displaying the image with the second label when displaying the image for the second user.

14. A system as recited in claim 13, wherein determining the second label comprises accessing an address book to identify a name that the second user calls the first user.

15. A system as recited in claim 13, the second label being different than the first label.

16. A system as recited in claim 13, further comprising displaying the image with the first identifier when displaying the image for the first user.

17. A system as recited in claim 13, wherein determining the second label comprises:

comparing a hash value of an email address in the tag to hash values of one or more email addresses in an email address record of the second user;

identifying a name corresponding to a hash value of the email address in the email address record that is the same as the hash value of the email address in the tag; and

using the name as the second label.

18. A system as recited in claim 13, wherein determining the second label comprises:

comparing an ID in the tag to one or more IDs in an ID record of the second user;

identifying a name corresponding to an ID in the ID record that is the same as the ID in the tag; and

using the name as the second label.

19. A system as recited in claim 13, wherein the operations further include:

determining one or more changes made to the image that affect the tag; and

altering the tag based on a type of editing caused by the one or more changes to the image.

20. A system as recited in claim 19, wherein the one or more changes include a change to one or more of a dimension of the image, an aspect ratio of the image, or data of the image.