Digital picture display system with photo clustering and filtering
AssigneeAura Home, Inc.
InventorsOphir Frieder, Abdur Chowdhury, Eric Jensen, Ben Cherry, Richard Sanford, Alek Kolcz
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Abstract
A digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for direct contact and upload of photos from electronic devices or from a user's social media account or her or his community members' social media accounts. The integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer, and a viewer profile automatically determined from the identity of the viewer. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers.
Claims16
A digital picture display system, comprising:
- a digital photo frame including a digital display, a network connection module adapted to connect to user electronic devices and to receive photos stored within the user electronic devices, and an automated display module adapted to automatically display photos and change photos displayed on the digital display from the user electronic devices;
- a first interaction application stored on a first electronic device of a first user, the first electronic device including a first digital photo collection, and the first interaction application including a first plurality of automatically created digital photo clusters according to content from the first digital photo collection;
- a second interaction application stored on a second electronic device of a second user, the second electronic device including a second digital photo collection, and the second interaction application including a second plurality of automatically created digital photo clusters according to content from the second digital photo collection;
- wherein the network connection module receives digital photos from one or more of the first and second plurality of automatically created digital photo clusters for display on the digital display;
- wherein at least one of:
- the first interaction application, the second interaction application, and the automated display module is configured to automatically filter photos as a function of quality, wherein photos of low quality are removed from the digital photo clusters or the digital photo frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.