Automatic generation of a photo album
AssigneeShutterfly, Inc.
InventorsPatrick C. Teo, Su M. Quek, Kai Bansner, John T. Townsend, Jr.
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Abstract
A method for producing a digital photo album includes selecting a plurality of digital images each characterized by a portrait format or a landscape format, providing a library of page layouts each comprising one or more image areas configured to receive digital images. Each of the image areas is characterized by an image area format consistent with the image format. One or more page layouts are automatically selected from the library of page layouts in accordance with the selected digital images and their associated image formats. The selected digital images are disposed in the image areas on the one or more page layouts to produce one or more pages in the digital photo album.
Claims20
A method for producing a photo album having a plurality of pages, comprising:
- storing a plurality of digital images each characterized by a portrait format or a landscape format;
- specifying a sequence for the plurality of digital images;
- providing a library of page layouts each comprising one or more image areas each of which is configured to receive a digital image characterized by a portrait format or a landscape format;
- selecting a first group of one or more digital images at the beginning of the sequence of the plurality of digital images;
- after the step of selecting a first group of one or more digital images, automatically selecting a page layout from the library of page layouts in accordance with the image formats of the one or more digital images in the first group;
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- disposing the first group of one or more digital images in the one or more image areas in the automatically selected page layout to produce a first page in a photo album.
A method for producing a photo album having a plurality of pages, comprising:
- storing a plurality of digital images each characterized by a portrait format or a landscape format;
- specifying a sequence for the plurality of digital images;
- providing a library of page layouts each comprising one or more image areas each of which is configured to receive a digital image characterized by a portrait format or a landscape format;
- selecting a first group of one or more digital images at the beginning of the sequence of the plurality of digital images;
- after the step of selecting a first group of one or more digital images, automatically selecting a first page layout from the library of page layouts in accordance with the image formats of the one or more digital images in the first group;
- disposing the first group of one or more digital images in the one or more image areas in the automatically selected first page layout to produce a first page in a photo album;
- after the step of disposing the first group of one or more digital images, selecting a second group of one or more digital images at the beginning of the sequence of the plurality of digital images;
- after the step of selecting a second group of one or more digital images, automatically selecting a second page layout from the library of page layouts in accordance with the image formats of the one or more digital images in the second group, wherein the first page layout is different from the second page layout;
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- disposing the second group of one or more digital images in the one or more image areas in the second page layout to produce a second page in the digital photo album.
A method for producing a photo album having a plurality of pages, comprising:
- storing a plurality of digital images each characterized by a portrait format or a landscape format;
- specifying a sequence for the plurality of digital images;
- providing a library of page layouts each comprising image areas each configured to receive a digital image characterized by a portrait format or a landscape format;
- selecting a first group of digital images at the beginning of the sequence of the plurality of digital images, wherein the first group comprise two images having a same image format;
- after the step of selecting a first group of digital images, automatically selecting a page layout from the library of page layouts in accordance with the image formats of the digital images in the first group;
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- disposing the first group of digital images in the image areas in the automatically selected page layout to produce a first page in a photo album, wherein the two images having the same image format are randomly disposed in two image areas associated with the same image format in the automatically selected page layout.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.