US 2017/0256085 A1 · Proactive creation of photo products

Abstract

A method for proactively creating a photobook includes identifying a group of images by a computer system and automatically creating a design for a photobook by the computer system without receiving a user's request for designing a photobook if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. Pages of the photobook incorporate a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the photobook to a user for preview and receiving an order from the user for a physical manifestation of the photobook based on the design.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for proactively creating a photo product, comprising:

receiving a group of images from one or more user devices;
automatically identifying an event based on image capture times and image capture locations of the images by a computer processor;
selecting images taken at the event to form a set of selected one or more images;
automatically identifying an organizer for the event;
determining or establishing a partnership with the organizer;
automatically selecting a photo product type in part based on the partnership with the organizer;
and
automatically creating a design of a photo product of the selected photo product type using the set of selected one or more images for the event.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/603,781Filed 24 May 2017

Priority

18 Mar 2009

Published

7 Sep 2017

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification19 codes

H04N 1/00132
Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture…: in…
G06F 18/24
Analysing: classification techniques
G06F 40/106
Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents: display of layout of documents; Previewing
G06F 40/186
Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting: templates

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