Interactive image selection method
AssigneeIntellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC
InventorsPeter Thomas Fry, John Denis Piper, Graham Robert Kiddle, Hani Muammar, Alan Payne
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Abstract
A method for browsing a collection of digital images on a soft-copy display comprising: receiving a collection of digital images; interactively user selecting a digital image using a user interface; determining a plurality of subsets of the digital images, wherein each subset shares a common category with the selected digital image; and displaying the subsets of digital images on the soft-copy display, together with the selected digital image.
Claims34
A method comprising:
- receiving a collection of digital images;
- receiving a user selection of a digital image from the collection of digital images using a user interface;
- determining a plurality of subsets of the digital images based on the received user selection, wherein each subset shares a different common category with the selected digital image;
- and
- displaying the subsets of digital images on a soft-copy display, together with the selected digital image, wherein each of the subsets of digital images are displayed in a respective region of the soft-copy display according to their respective common category shared with the selected digital image.
A system comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to:
- receive a user selection of a digital image from a collection of digital images;
- and
- determine a plurality of subsets of the digital images based on the received user selection, wherein each subset shares a different common category with the selected digital image;
- and
- a display coupled to the one or more processor and configured to display the subsets of digital images together with the selected digital image, wherein each of the subsets of digital images are displayed in a respective region of the display according to their respective common category shared with the selected digital image.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions comprising:
- instructions to receive a user selection of a digital image from a collection of digital images;
- instructions to determine a plurality of subsets of the digital images based on the received user selection, wherein each subset shares a different common category with the selected digital image;
- and
- instructions to display the subsets of digital images together with the selected digital image, wherein each of the subsets of digital images are displayed in a respective region of a display area according to their respective common category shared with the selected digital image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.