# US 12,192,414 B2 · Gifted digital picture frame network setup > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,192,414 B2 - Document ID: US12192414B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/386,858 - Filed: 2023-11-03 - Published: 2024-02-29 - Granted: 2025-01-07 - Earliest claimed: 2013-10-10 - Assignees: Aura Home, Inc. - Applicants: Aura Home, Inc. - Inventors: Abdur Chowdhury; Eric Jensen; Ben Cherry - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12192414B2 ## CPC - H04N 1/00: Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof - A47G 1/06: Picture frames (making from paper B31D) - A47G 1/16: Devices for hanging or supporting pictures, mirrors, or the like - G06F 3/017: {Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883)} - G06F 3/14: Digital output to display device {; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units} - G06F 9/4451: {User profiles; Roaming} - G06F 16/535: Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles - G06F 16/54: Browsing; Visualisation therefor - G06F 16/5866: {using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information} - G06F 18/23: Clustering techniques - G06F 18/2323: based on graph theory, e.g. minimum spanning trees [MST] or graph cuts - G06Q 10/083: Shipping - G06Q 10/40: Business processes related to social networking or social networking services - G06Q 10/42: Determination of affinities or common interests between users - G06Q 30/0633: {Managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists (shipping orders G06Q10/083; order filling G06Q10/087)} - G06V 20/30: in albums, collections or shared content, e.g. social network photos or video - G06V 40/174: {Facial expression recognition} - G06V 40/23: {Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training} - H04L 67/06: specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP] - H04L 67/53: using third party service providers - H04N 1/00185: {Image output (for details of particular output arrangements see the relevant sub-class, e.g. B41J, G03B, G09G, G11B)} - H04N 21/234372: {for performing aspect ratio conversion} - H04N 21/4223: Cameras (H04N23/00 takes precedence) - H04N 21/4415: using biometric characteristics of the user, e.g. by voice recognition or fingerprint scanning {(cryptography using biological data H04L9/3231; authentication in networks using biometric H04L63/0861)} - H04N 21/454: Content {or additional data} filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements - H04N 21/458: Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules {; time-related management operations (arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10)} - H04N 21/8153: {comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image} - H04W 4/021: Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences - H04W 4/21: for social networking applications - H04W 4/80: Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication - G01S 5/0295: {Proximity-based methods, e.g. position inferred from reception of particular signals} - G01S 19/42: Determining position - G06F 1/1605: {Multimedia displays, e.g. with integrated or attached speakers, cameras, microphones} - G06K 7/1413: {1D bar codes} - G06K 7/1417: {2D bar codes} - G09G 2354/00: Aspects of interface with display user - G09G 2370/20: Details of the management of multiple sources of image data - G09G 2380/16: Digital picture frames - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - A47G: HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT (book-ends A47B5/00; knives B26B) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - G01S: RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES - G06K: GRAPHICAL DATA READING (image or video recognition or understanding G06V); PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS - G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00) ## Abstract A picture frame and methods of setup, gifting, and/or use. Network connection allows digital frames to be set up remotely by a first user for a second user. The first user can upload photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members before the second user receives the frame device. The frame is thus ready for display upon powering on by the second user. An integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer and can capture gesture-based feedback. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers. The photos can be filtered and cropped at the receiver side. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method of initializing a photo display on a digital display device with a network connection module, the method comprising: downloading a first interaction application to a mobile electronic device of a first user, the mobile electronic device including a digital photo collection of the first user; adding the digital display device to the first interaction application through a first location wireless network of the first user; adding photos of interest for a second user, selected by the first user from the digital photo collection of the first user, to the first interaction application; the first user delivering the digital display device to the second user within a different second location wireless network that belongs to the second user; the first user using the first interaction application and entering an access information for the different second location wireless network that belongs to the second user upon the second user initiating a first start-up of the digital display device within access distance of the second location wireless network; uploading the access information to the digital display device from the first interaction application of the mobile electronic device of the first user; and the digital display device automatically finding and connecting, using the uploaded access information, to the second location wireless network, wherein the photos of interest added by the first user are automatically downloaded to the digital display device and displayed to the second user upon the first start-up through the second location wireless network. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the first location wireless network of the first user is a first WIFI network of the first user, and the second location wireless network is a second WIFI network of the second user, and wherein the entering the access information for the second location wireless network comprises the first user changing, through the first WIFI network, the WIFI network information for the digital display device to the WIFI access information for the second WIFI network of the second user. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: the first user inviting community members to add the digital display device to and through community member interaction applications; and the invited community members adding further photos of interest for the second user to the digital display device through the community member interaction applications. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein the downloading, adding, and inviting steps occur without removing the digital display device from a packaging and without powering on the digital display device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising adding a start-up message from the first user to the second user through the first interaction application, wherein the start-up message added by the first user is automatically displayed to the second user upon the start-up. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method of claim 5, further comprising: adding at least one additional message received from the first user; and forwarding the at least one additional message at a predetermined time duration after the start-up message. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein delivering the digital display device to the second user comprises gifting the second user the digital display device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein adding the digital display device to the first interaction application comprises: establishing a first user account within the first interaction application; and adding the digital display device as a gift display device for the second user within the first interaction application. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: downloading a second interaction application to a second mobile electronic device of the second user; adding the digital display device to the second interaction application; adding second user selected photos of interest to the second interaction application; and automatically displaying on the digital display device the photos of interest added by the first user and the second user selected photos. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The method of claim 9, further comprising: the second interaction application automatically clustering digital photos of a digital photo collection of the second user according to photo content; receiving a selected digital photo cluster from the second interaction application for display; and automatically displaying on the digital display device the digital photos of the selected digital photo clusters. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The method of claim 10, wherein the second interaction application displays clusters of photos on the digital display device matching content of the photos of interest selected by the first user. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising the first interaction application automatically clustering digital photos of a first digital photo collection of the first mobile electronic device according to photo content, wherein the first user adds photos for the second user according to clusters of digital photos. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the adding the digital display device to the first interaction application comprises: providing a packaged digital display device to the first user; the first user removing an outer packaging to reveal a device gift set-up code; scanning the device gift set-up code, wherein the digital display device is not removed from an inner packaging. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the adding the digital display device to the first interaction application comprises: receiving an online purchase of the digital display device from the first user; and forwarding an electronic gift setup link to the first user, wherein the gift setup link is configured to add the digital display device to the first interaction application. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the digital display device is a digital picture frame. ### Claim 16 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, further comprising storing data on device delivering activities at a server data processor, wherein the stored data includes connections between the first user, the second user, and any invited community members. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The method of claim 16, further comprising the server computer forwarding user information updates to the first user, the second user, and/or any invited community members as a function of the stored data. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the adding photos of interest comprises: the first user creating a group of photos; tagging the group of photos by an identifier; forwarding the identifier to the second user and community members; and displaying the group of photos on the digital display device of the second user and/or of any of the community members upon an acceptance of the identifier. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a return message to the first user from the second user through the digital display device, the return message received via tap or gesture of the second user; and delivering the return message to the first interaction application. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically forwarding a message to the first interaction application indicating and upon the start-up of the digital display device.