Video game for tagging photos
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsNicholas A. Diakopoulos, Patrick Chiu
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Abstract
A multi-player solitaire or multi-player video game that generates tags for digital images. A tabletop or computer screen video game provides an enjoyable way for collocated players to view, share, talk about and, in the process tag photos. The video games can generate valuable text labels for photos with multiple levels of specificity and named entities. These labels can be used to help manage and index collections of photos for browsing and retrieval.
Claims27
A computer game for tagging stored digital images, comprising:
- a randomizer for selecting:
- m images of the stored digital images, to be used in a game round, m being an integer larger than zero;
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- x letters of the alphabet, to be used in the game round, x being an integer larger than zero;
- an image display for simultaneously displaying n images out of m images, n being an integer larger than zero;
- a letter tray for displaying a plurality of letter tiles, each letter tile representing one of the x letters;
- a highlighter for selectively highlighting one of the letter tiles according to a user pointer;
- a word tray enabling a user to construct words by selecting letter tiles from the letter tray;
- a tag generator generating tags linking words constructed in the word tray to corresponding images of the n images.
A method for generating tags for digital images, comprising:
- for each game round performing the following steps:
- a. selecting m images of the digital images and displaying the m images on m display areas;
- b. selecting n number of letters of the alphabet, and displaying each of the n letters as a letter tile in a display area defined as a letter tray;
- c. enabling users to select letter tiles and, when a user selects a letter tile, displaying the letter tile in a user's display area defined as word tray;
- d. when sufficient letter tiles have been displayed in a word tray to form a word, enabling the user to select one of the m image;
- and,
- e. creating a tag associating the word with the selected image and storing the tag in a storage area so as to enable searching and browsing of the digital images using the tags.
A system for tagging digital images using a game, comprising:
- a display having a letter tray display area, a word tray display area, and at least one image display area defined thereupon;
- at least one user input device;
- an image file for storing digital images to be tagged;
- a randomizer for selecting:
- iii. At least one image to be tagged in each game round;
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- iv. a plurality of letters of the alphabet, but less than all of the letters of the alphabet;
- a video card displaying the at least one image on the image display area and each of the plurality of letters on a letter tile on the letter tray display area;
- a microprocessor enabling users to select letter tiles and use the letter tiles to construct words in the words tray display area, and further to construct tags associating constructed words with user selected image of the at least one image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.