Method for rating images to facilitate image retrieval
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsKenneth A. Parulski, John R. McCoy
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Abstract
A method for rating images to facitilate image retrival that includes, storing a plurality of digital image files in a digital memory; displaying the plurality of stored digital image files; permitting a user to select ratings for each of the plurality of displayed images, wherein the rating indicates how much the user likes each displayed image. Whereupon being responsive to the user ratings, user image values are provided for each of the the plurality of displayed images. Additionally, the user image values are stored as metadata in each of the plurality of stored digital image files corresponding to the plurality of displayed images, wherein the user image value uses a multi-point scale and wherein a maximum point value corresponds to a best rating.
Claims17
A method for rating images to facitilate image retrival, comprising the steps of:
- (a) storing a plurality of digital image files in a digital memory;
- (b) displaying the plurality of stored digital image files;
- (c) permitting a user to select one of the plurality of displayed images and to select a rating, wherein the rating indicates how much the user likes the image;
- (d) responsive to the user rating, providing a user image value for the selected displayed image, and;
- (e) storing the user image value as metadata in the stored digital image file corresponding to the displayed image, wherein the user image value uses a multi-point scale and wherein a maximum point value corresponds to a best rating.
A method for rating images to facitilate image retrival, comprising the steps of:
- (a) storing a plurality of digital image files in a digital memory;
- (b) displaying the plurality of stored digital image files;
- (c) permitting a user to select ratings for each of the plurality of displayed images, wherein the rating indicates how much the user likes each displayed image;
- (d) responsive to the user ratings, providing user image values for each of the the plurality of displayed images, and;
- (e) storing the user image values as metadata in each of the plurality of stored digital image files corresponding to the plurality of displayed images, wherein the user image value uses a multi-point scale and wherein amaximum point value corresponds to a best rating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.