US 8,554,020 B2Granted

System and method for creating and sharing photo stories

AssigneeShutterfly, Inc.

InventorsKelly Berger, Adnan Asar, Alessandro Marcello Isaacs

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Abstract

A system and method are described for creating, managing and sharing photo stories. For example, one embodiment of a computer implemented method for selecting among a plurality of different photo story templates comprises: receiving a plurality of new photos from a user the photos having metadata associated; analyzing the photos and the metadata associated with the photos; responsively grouping the photos into a plurality of different photo stories based on the analysis of the photos and the metadata associated with the photos; and selecting a set of photo story design templates for each of the different photo stories based on the analysis of the photos and the metadata associated with the photos grouped into the different photo stories.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for creating photo stories, comprising:

obtaining a group of photos and metadata associated with the group of photos by a computer system;
analyzing the group of photos, or the metadata, or a combination thereof by the computer system, which produces an analysis result, wherein the step of analyzing the group of photos comprises:
automatically determining number of photos in the group of photos by the computer system;
storing a plurality of photo story design templates;
automatically selecting, by the computer system, a photo story design template from the plurality of photo story design templates based on the analysis result, wherein the step of automatically selecting comprises:
automatically removing photo story design templates in the plurality of photo story design templates which are inappropriate for the number of photos in the group of photos;
and
incorporating the group of photos into the photo story design template to produce a photo story.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/280,100Filed 24 Oct 2011 · continuation
Priority: 13 May 2010
Published: US 2012/0039546 A116 Feb 2012
Granted: 8 Oct 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06T 11/60
Two-dimensional [2D] image generation: creating or editing images; Combining images with text
G06F 16/54
Of still image data: browsing; Visualisation therefor
G06F 40/106
Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents: display of layout of documents; Previewing
G06T 7/97
Image analysis: determining parameters from multiple pictures

Family

Application12/779,673Parent of this continuation · filed 13 May 2010
US 2012/0039546 A1Pre-grant publication · published 16 Feb 2012
US 2011/0280497 A1Published application
US 8,655,111 B2Related patent
US 8,554,020 B2This patent

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