Calendar-based interfaces for browsing and manipulation of digital images

• US 7,325,198 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2002
• Issued: 01/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Girgensohn, Andreas, Hilbert, David M., Wilcox, Lynn D., Adcock, John E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid; Kristine
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, LE V
• Application Number:
  US10/334,473
• Publication Number:
  US 20040125150A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,855 Days
• Field of Search: 715/838, 715/722, 715/963
• US Class Current: 715/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to navigate, view, and manipulate a collection of digital images utilizing a GUI that has the familiar context of a calendar. Graphical objects representative of digital images are displayed within a particular day displayed in a calendar-based GUI. A user may group digital images into groups, modify the date with which a digital image is associated and perform various other manipulations using embodiments of a calendar-based GUI.

Claims

1. A machine based graphical user interface for displaying to a user one or more graphical object having an associated date, comprising:

a graphical calendar which includes a grid of cells; and

said one or more graphical object displayed at a location within said graphical calendar said location being one or more cells of the grid of cells, wherein said one or more graphical object is representative of one or more digital image that corresponds to said date associated with said graphical object, wherein said graphical object is a vertical fill level, wherein the vertical height of the fill level shading in the one or more cell represents the number of digital images associated with that graphical object.

2. The graphical user interface of claim 1 wherein said associated date includes a time and wherein said graphical object representative of said digital image is displayed at a location within said graphical calendar that corresponds to said associated date and said time.

3. The graphical user interface of claim 1 wherein said graphical calendar illustrates a year view.

4. The graphical user interface of claim 1 wherein said graphical calendar illustrates a month view.

5. The graphical user interface of claim 1 wherein said graphical calendar illustrates a week view.

8. The graphical user interface of claim 1 further comprising a depth of said fill level, where the depth of said fill level is proportional to the number of digital images associated with said graphical object.

11. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein said graphical object is displayed at least on a daily basis.

6. A computer based method for organizing and displaying to a user a plurality of digital images comprising the steps of:

obtaining said plurality of digital images;

generating a database containing information for each of said plurality of digital images;

displaying a graphical calendar which includes a grid of cells; and

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displaying one or more graphical objects at distinct locations within said graphical calendar, wherein one or more graphical object has a vertical fill level luminance representative of a number of said plurality of digital images, wherein the vertical fill level luminance increases with increasing number of digital images.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the luminance is proportional to the number of said plurality of digital images represented.

9. A machine based method for organizing and displaying to a user a plurality of digital images comprising the steps of:

obtaining said plurality of digital images;

generating a database containing information for each of said plurality of digital images;

displaying a graphical calendar which includes a grid of cells; and

,

displaying one or more graphical object at distinct cell locations within said graphical calendar grid of cells, wherein one or more graphical object is a vertical fill level, wherein the vertical height of the fill level shading in one or more cell represents the number of digital images.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein a depth of said fill level is proportional to the number of digital images associated with said graphical object.