Smart gallery and automatic music video creation from a set of photos

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9369662-B2
Application number	US-201313870867-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 25, 2013
Priority date	Apr 25, 2013
Publication date	Jun 14, 2016
Grant date	Jun 14, 2016

Abstract

Various embodiments provide a so-called smart gallery that is designed to create a short summary view of a collection of content, such as photographs and video. The content can be prioritized and presented in a smart gallery user interface that includes gallery elements that can be sized in accordance with prioritized content. Prioritization can take place based on whether content is manually captured or automatically captured. Alternately or additionally, prioritization can take place based on content analysis that looks at content quality and/or objects that appear in the content.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more computer readable storage memory devices comprising computer readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, implement a method comprising:
receiving content that has been captured by a camera;
processing the content using one or more image processing techniques;
assigning priority values to the content based on said image processing techniques;
using the priority values to define a gallery view layout that comprises gallery elements; and
causing the gallery elements to be populated with prioritized content such that each piece of higher-prioritized content populates multiple respective gallery elements and each piece of lower-prioritized content populates a single respective gallery element.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein said using comprises defining which content is to appear in the gallery view layout.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein said using comprises defining sizes of gallery elements that comprise the gallery view layout.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein said one or more image processing techniques are configured to process the content in an attempt to identify faces or facial expressions.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein said one or more image processing techniques are configured to process the content to identify similarity between individual pieces of content.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein said one or more image processing techniques are configured to analyze the quality of the content.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein said one or more image processing techniques are configured to analyze whether the content is blurred.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the gallery elements are configured to hold multiple pieces of content.

9. A computing device comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more computer readable media embodying computer readable instructions which, when executed, implement a method comprising:
receiving content that has been captured by a camera;
image processing the content to ascertain image quality and to detect objects in the content;
assigning priority values to the content based on said image processing;
using the priority values to define a gallery view layout; and
causing gallery elements to be populated with prioritized content, individual gallery elements being configured to contain multiple pieces of content, said content being presented in a chronological order, the gallery elements having different sizes based on the priority values of the content contained therein such that larger gallery elements hold higher-prioritized content and smaller gallery elements hold lower-prioritized content.

10. The computing device of claim 9 , wherein individual gallery elements are assigned a sub-range of a time continuum that corresponds to the captured content.

11. The computing device of claim 9 , wherein at least some gallery elements are configured to advance through content contained therein.

12. The computing device of claim 9 , wherein at least some gallery elements are configured to enable user interaction therewith.

13. The computing device of claim 9 , wherein the content can include both photographs and video.

14. A computer-implemented method of processing content to provide a gallery view, the method comprising:
receiving, via a computing device, content that has been captured by a camera;
processing, via the computing device, the content using one or more image processing techniques;
assigning, via the computing device, priority values to the content based on said image processing techniques;
using, via the computing device, the priority values to define a gallery view layout; and
causing, via the computing device, gallery elements to be populated with prioritized content, the gallery items sized based on the prioritized content such that larger gallery elements hold higher-prioritized content and smaller gallery elements hold lower-prioritized content.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 , wherein said using comprises defining which content is to appear in the gallery view layout.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 , wherein said using comprises defining sizes of gallery elements that comprise the gallery view layout.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 , wherein said one or more image processing techniques are configured to process the content in an attempt to identify faces or facial expressions.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 , wherein said one or more image processing techniques are configured to process the content to identify similarity between individual pieces of content.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 , wherein individual gallery elements are configured to contain multiple pieces of content.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 , wherein individual gallery elements are configured to contain a single piece of content.

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Lammers Michael J
• Chau Seang Y

Classifications

• H04N1/00198 Primary

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