System and method for automatically sorting digital photographs
OwnerLouis Bifano, David Horoschakinventors
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Abstract
A method for providing for the automatic accurate sorting of digital photograph files, without dependence on a particular application or operating-system, by use of its inventive metadata file is disclosed. The present invention provides a metadata file, containing date and time of capture datum, associated with each digital photograph file. When uploaded to the computer for storage on non-volatile storage, the metadata is transferred along with the digital photograph files. Thereafter, an inventive system of the present invention allows consumers to specify events, and view and/or print digital photograph files which fit the event date criteria by querying the metadata associated with each digital photograph file.
Claims12
A method for the automatic sorting of digital photograph files, said method comprising:
- creating date and time datum for an image upon capture by a digital camera;
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- storing said date and time datum as a metadata associated with a digital photograph file containing said image.
A calendar based system for the automatic sorting of digital photograph files, said system comprising:
- a calendar graphical user interface, said interface being used to define at least one event date;
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- an engine, said engine searching for metadata associated with digital photograph files, said metadata containing date datum from a capture of an image in said digital photograph file, said engine sorting said digital photograph files by using associated metadata and said at least one defined event date.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.