AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF A PHOTO ALBUM

Patent №

US 7,474,801

Granted

2009-01-06

Filed 2005

Owner

SHUTTERFLY, INC

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11176049

A method for producing a digital photo album includes selecting a plurality of digital images each characterized by a portrait format or a landscape format, providing a library of page layouts each comprising one or more image areas configured to receive digital images. Each of the image areas is characterized by an image area format consistent with the image format. One or more page layouts are automatically selected from the library of page layouts in accordance with the selected digital images and their associated image formats. The selected digital images are disposed in the image areas on the one or more page layouts to produce one or more pages in the digital photo album.

VisionH04N 1/00132H04N 1/00196H04N 1/00442H04N 1/00448H04N 1/00453H04N 1/00456H04N 1/00458H04N 1/00461+1 more

AI classification

Vision0.98
Knowledge representation0.03
Natural language0.02
Planning0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

SHUTTERFLY, INC

assignment · 337240192

Assignors

TEO, PATRICK C, QUEK, SU MIEN, BANSNER, KAI, TOWNSEND, JOHN T, JR

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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