Place-based image organization

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9251173-B2
Application number	US-96352710-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 8, 2010
Priority date	Dec 8, 2010
Publication date	Feb 2, 2016
Grant date	Feb 2, 2016

Abstract

Systems and methods for image organization are provided. An image organization method in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure includes, at a user computing device, receiving an image set comprising a plurality of images, and comparing a portion of each image in the image set with a verified cue library including a plurality of visual cues that correspond to different geographic place tags. The method may further include displaying a recommendation panel including a recommended place tag corresponding to a visual cue that matches the portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An image organization method comprising, at a mobile computing device:
receiving an image set comprising a plurality of images;
comparing a portion of each image in the image set with a verified cue library including a plurality of visual cues that correspond to different geographic place tags and a plurality of supplemental cues including a geographic location of the mobile computing device, the geographic location determined from placing a call temporally proximate to a time stamp of one or more images in the image set;
displaying a recommendation panel including a recommended place tag corresponding to a visual cue and a supplemental cue including the geographic location that match the portion;
receiving a user-provided place tag for a selected image of the image set;
comparing a portion of each other image in the image set with visual cues that correspond to the user-provided place tag; and
displaying a recommendation window including a recommendation that the user-provided place tag be assigned to images having portions that match the visual cues that correspond to the user-provided place tag.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
assigning the recommended place tag to one or more images of the image set in response to receiving a verification that the recommended place tag matches the one or more images.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the visual cues in the verified cue library are extracted from verified images stored on the user computing device.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the visual cues in the verified cue library are extracted from verified images aggregated from a plurality of computing devices and stored in a data store of a remote computing device cloud accessible by the user computing device.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the verified cue library includes a plurality of place name cues that correspond to different geographic place tags, and the method further comprises:
comparing a file name of each image in the image set with the place name cues; and
displaying, in the recommendation panel, a recommended place tag corresponding to a place name cue that matches the file name.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the recommendation panel includes a ranked list of recommended place tags.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein one or more of the plurality of images in the image set does not have an assigned place tag.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of supplemental cues are provided from other applications executable by the user computing device that correspond to different geographic place tags, and the method further comprises:
comparing a time stamp of each image in the image set with the supplemental cues; and
displaying, in the recommendation panel, a recommended place tag corresponding to a supplemental cue that matches the time stamp.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the mobile computing device is a mobile phone.

10. An image organization method comprising, at a server computing device:
receiving, from a user computing device, an image set including a plurality of images;
comparing a portion of each image in the image set with a verified cue library including a plurality of visual cues that correspond to different geographic place tags and a plurality of supplemental cues including a geographic location of the user computing device, the plurality of visual cues being aggregated from a plurality of different sources in a computing device cloud, the geographic location determined from placing a call temporally proximate to a time stamp of one or more images in the image set;
sending, to the user computing device, a recommended place tag corresponding to a visual cue and a supplemental cue including the geographic location that match the portion;
receiving, from the user computing device, verification that the recommended place tag matches the portion;
updating the verified cue library with a new visual cue corresponding to a geographic place tag, the new visual cue being received from one of the plurality of different sources;
comparing a portion of each image in the image set with the new visual cue; and
sending, to the user computing device, the geographic place tag corresponding to the new visual cue that matches the portion.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the verified cue library includes a plurality of place name cues that correspond to different geographic place tags, and the method further comprises:
comparing a file name of each image in the image set with the place name cues; and
sending, to the user computing device, a recommended place tag corresponding to a place name cue that matches the file name.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein one or more of the plurality of images in the image set does not have an assigned place tag.

Assignees

• Despain Stuart
• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Despain Stuart

Classifications

• G06F16/2477 Primary

  Temporal data queries · CPC title

• G06F16/587

  using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location · CPC title

• G06F17/30265 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/14 Primary

  Digital output to display device {; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units} · CPC title

• G06F3/048

  Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] · CPC title