Place-based image organization

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9412035-B2
Application number	US-201514952611-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 25, 2015
Priority date	Dec 8, 2010
Publication date	Aug 9, 2016
Grant date	Aug 9, 2016

Abstract

Systems and methods for image organization are provided. An computing device in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure includes a processor configured to receive an image set comprising a plurality of images, compare 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 display a recommendation panel including a recommended place tag corresponding to a visual cue that matches the portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computer system, comprising:
at least one processor;
memory having instructions stored thereon that when executed by the at least one processor perform acts comprising:
determining a geographic location of a mobile computing device from placement of a call;
receiving an image set comprising a plurality of images, with the placement of the call being temporally proximate to a time stamp of one or more images in the image set;
comparing a portion of each image in the image set with a verified cue library, the verified cue library including a plurality of visual cues that correspond to different geographic place tags and one or more supplemental cues including the geographic location from the placement of the call; and
displaying a recommendation panel including a recommended place tag corresponding to a visual cue that matches the portion.

2. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the acts further comprise 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 computer system of claim 1 , wherein the acts further comprise:
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.

4. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the visual cues in the verified cue library are extracted from verified images stored in the computer system.

5. The computer system 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 computer system.

6. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the verified cue library includes a plurality of place name cues that correspond to different geographic place tags, and wherein the processor is further configured to:
compare a file name of each image in the image set with the place name cues; and
display, in the recommendation panel, a recommended place tag corresponding to a place name cue that matches the file name.

7. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the recommendation panel includes a ranked list of recommended place tags.

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

9. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the verified cue library includes a plurality of supplemental cues, the supplemental cues provided from other applications executable by the computer system that correspond to different geographic place tags, and wherein the acts further comprise:
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 of the supplemental cues that matches the time stamp.

10. A computer system comprising:
at least one processor;
memory having instructions stored thereon that when executed by the at least one processor perform acts comprising:
determining a geographic location of a mobile computing device from placement of a call;
receiving an image set comprising a plurality of images, the placement of the call being temporally proximate to a time stamp of one or more images in the image set;
comparing a portion of each image in the image set with a verified cue library, the verified cue library including a plurality of visual cues that correspond to different geographic place tags and one or more supplemental cues including the geographic location from the placement of the call; and
assigning a recommended place tag to an image having a portion that matches a visual cue in the verified cue library, and that matches the geographic location from the placement of the call.

11. The computer system of claim 10 , wherein the acts further comprise:
displaying an image organization graphical user interface comprising:
an image display region including a plurality of images from the image set;
an image organization control region including a place category selector selectable to organize images displayed in the image display region by assigned place tags; and
a recommendation panel including one or more place tag selectors selectable to assign a recommended place tag to selected images that include a portion that matches a visual cue that corresponds to the recommended place tag, the assigning of the recommendation place tag being performed in response to a selection of the assigned recommendation place tag from the recommendation panel.

12. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein each image without an assigned place tag displayed in the image display region includes a recommendation icon indicating that no place tag is assigned to that image.

13. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the recommendation panel includes a ranked list of recommended place tags.

14. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the recommendation panel includes one or more place tag selectors selectable to assign a recommended place tag to selected images that include a file name that matches a place name cue that corresponds to the recommended place tag.

15. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the acts comprise, in response to receiving a selection of a place tag selector, displaying a verification window in the image organization graphical user interface, the verification window including a verification selector configured to accept a user verification and assign the recommended place tag to the selected images.

16. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the image organization graphical user interface further comprises: a user-provided place tag region configured to receive a user-provided place tag to be assigned to one or more selected images in the image display region, and wherein the acts further comprise, in response to receiving the user-provided place tag, indicating one or more images in the display region that includes a portion that matches a visual cue that corresponds to the user-provided place tag.

17. A computer-implemented image organization method, comprising:
determining a geographic location of a mobile computing device from placement of a call;
receiving an image set including a plurality of images, the placement of the call being temporally proximate to a time stamp of one or more images in the image set;
comparing a portion of each image in the image set with a verified cue library, the verified cue library including a plurality of visual cues that correspond to different geographic place tags and one or more supplemental cues including the geographic location from the placement of the call; and
displaying a recommendation panel including a recommended place tag corresponding to a visual cue that matches the portion.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the verified cue library includes a plurality of place name cues that correspond to different geographic place tags, the method further comprising receiving a recommended place tag corresponding to a place name cue that matches a file name of an image in the image set.

19. The method of claim 17 , wherein one or more of the plurality of ima

Assignees

• 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

• G06K9/46 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30265

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06T7/0002

  Inspection of images, e.g. flaw detection · CPC title