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| 20090160970 | REMOTE DETERMINATION OF IMAGE-ACQUISITION SETTINGS AND OPPORTUNITIES - Pre-image-acquisition information is obtained by a digital camera and transmitted to a system external to the digital camera. The system is configured to provide image-acquisition settings to the digital camera. In this regard, the digital camera receives the image-acquisition settings from the external system and performs an image-acquisition sequence based at least upon the received image-acquisition settings. Accordingly, the determination of image-acquisition settings can be performed remotely from the digital camera, where data-processing resources can greatly exceed those within the digital camera. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090161962 | GROUPING IMAGES BY LOCATION - A method of grouping images captured in a common location, including receiving a collection of images; classifying the images into a set of events, where each image in the collection belongs to no more than one event; analyzing background region(s) of images from each event to determine one or more features that represent the event; and comparing features from at least two events to determine which events occurred in a common location. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090192967 | DISCOVERING SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS FROM PERSONAL PHOTO COLLECTIONS - A method of categorizing the relationship of individuals from a collection of photos taken in multiple sets of events includes: searching the photo collection to identify individuals in the photo collection, determining the gender and age range of the identified individuals; and using the identified individuals, their occurrences and co-occurrences, their gender, and their ages to infer social relationships between the individuals based on a set of rules. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090310189 | DETERMINING THE ORIENTATION OF SCANNED HARDCOPY MEDIUM - A method of determining the orientation of a scanned digital image having an image side and a non-image side, includes scanning a hardcopy medium to produce a scanned digital image; scanning the non-image side of the hardcopy medium; detecting handwritten annotations in either the scanned digital image or the scan of the non-image side of the hardcopy medium; determining handwritten annotation features related to the handwritten annotations; using the annotation orientation features to determine the orientation of the scanned digital image; and storing the determined orientation of the scanned digital image | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090310814 | FINDING ORIENTATION AND DATE OF HARDCOPY MEDIUM - A method of determining the image capture date of scanned hardcopy medium, includes scanning hardcopy medium that includes at least one index print(s) to produce scanned digital images; detecting one or more index prints from among the scanned digital images; identifying thumbnail images contained within the one or more index prints; determining an image capture date for each index print and associating the image capture date with the thumbnail image(s) contained within that index print; matching a scanned digital image to a thumbnail image from the one or more index prints; associating the date from the thumbnail image to the scanned digital image that matches the thumbnail image; and storing the date in association with the scanned digital image that matches the thumbnail image. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090310863 | FINDING IMAGE CAPTURE DATE OF HARDCOPY MEDIUM - A method of determining the image capture date of a scanned hardcopy medium having an image side and a non-image side, includes scanning the hardcopy medium to produce a scanned digital image; detecting handwritten annotations in the scanned digital image of the hardcopy medium; and using the handwritten annotations to determine the image capture date of the hardcopy medium by analyzing the handwritten annotations to identify names of people and associated ages; providing the names and lifespan information for a set of persons likely to appear in the hardcopy medium; and using the identified names of people and the associated ages along with the lifespan information to determine the image capture date. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100103463 | DETERMINING GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF A SCANNED IMAGE - A method of determining the geographic location of a hardcopy medium having an image side and a non-image side, includes scanning a hardcopy medium to produce a scanned digital image; scanning the non-image side of the hardcopy medium; detecting a location feature from the scan of the non-image side of the hardcopy medium; using the location feature to determine the geographic location of the scanned digital image; and storing the determined geographic location of the scanned digital image. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106573 | ACTION SUGGESTIONS BASED ON INFERRED SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS - A method of categorizing a social relationship between individuals in a collection of images to suggest a possible course of action, includes searching the collection to identify individuals and determining their genders and their age ranges; using the gender, and age ranges of the identifies individuals to infer at least one social relationship between them; and using at least one inferred social relationship to suggest a possible course of action. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100226566 | PRODUCING OBJECT CUTOUTS IN TOPICALLY RELATED IMAGES - A method for extracting an object out of each image in a group of digital images that contain the object, includes providing a group of digital images, each containing the object with a background; selecting a seed image from the group of digital images, and displaying the seed image to a user; the user providing at least one marking for the seed image, which corresponds to a subset of pixels in the seed image that indicates whether the set of pixels belongs to a part of object of interest or a part of the background; producing from the seed image and the marking a statistical model that can be used for separating the object of interest from the background in the group of images; and applying the statistical model to each image in the group of digital images to produce a cutout of the object of interest from each digital image. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110074966 | METHOD FOR MEASURING PHOTOGRAPHER'S AESTHETIC QUALITY PROGRESS - A method for measuring a photographer's progress over time toward producing images with a high level of aesthetic quality by assessing the aesthetic quality of a set of digital images captured by the photographer comprising: providing a set of digital images captured by a particular photographer, each digital image having and associated capture times captured by a particular photographer; using a processor to compute an aesthetic quality parameters for each digital image in the set; and producing an indication of the photographer's progress toward producing images with a high level of aesthetic quality using the aesthetic quality parameters for each digital image in the set and the corresponding associated capture times. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110075917 | ESTIMATING AESTHETIC QUALITY OF DIGITAL IMAGES - A method for estimating the aesthetic quality of an input digital image comprising using a digital image processor for performing the following: determining one or more vanishing point(s) associated with the input digital image by automatically analyzing the digital image; computing a compositional model from at least the positions of the vanishing point(s); and producing an aesthetic quality parameter for the input digital image responsive to the compositional model, wherein the aesthetic quality parameter is an estimate for the aesthetic quality of the input digital image. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110075930 | METHOD FOR COMPARING PHOTOGRAPHER AESTHETIC QUALITY - A method for comparing a plurality of photographers by assessing the aesthetic quality of a set of digital images captured by each photographer comprising: providing a set of digital images captured by each of a plurality of photographers; using a processor to determine an aesthetic quality parameter for each digital image in each of the sets of digital images, wherein the aesthetic quality parameter is an estimate for the aesthetic quality of the digital image; determining an aesthetic quality distribution for each photographer responsive to the aesthetic quality parameters computed for each of the digital images in the photographer's set of digital images; and providing a comparison between the aesthetic quality distributions of the photographers. | 03-31-2011 |
