Automatic photo album creation based on social information
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsJennifer Dolson, Paul Francois Carduner
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Abstract
A social photo curation system is used to automatically identify a subset of photos for an album to provide to a viewing user. The album and its photos are associated with metadata indicating information about the photos, such as individuals tagged in the photos, locations where the photos were taken, keywords or concepts associated with the photos, and the quality and variety of the photos. The social photo curation system uses this metadata to score and select the photos for a particular viewing user. The scoring and selection of photos for the album may be independent of the viewing user, or it may be customized based on the viewing user's interests and connections to other users in a social networking system.
Claims11
A method comprising:
- storing user profiles for each of a plurality of users of a social networking system;
- storing information for each of a plurality of objects in the social networking system;
- storing a plurality of connections between each of the plurality of the users and the other users or objects in the social networking system;
- accessing a plurality of images provided by a posting user of the plurality of users;
- receiving a request to access an album, the album comprising a set of images selected from the plurality of images;
- identifying one or more tagged objects in the images in the album, where a tagged object is an object of the plurality of objects in the social networking system;
- computing a score for one or more of the plurality of images, where the score for an image is based at least in part on an association between information from a user profile of the posting user and the one or more tagged objects in the image;
- selecting a subset of the plurality of images based on the computed scores, wherein one or more of the computed scores are adjusted to select a diverse subset of images that include a diversity of tagged objects across the one or more of the plurality of images;
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- sending for display to the viewing user an album, the album comprising the selected subset of the plurality of images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.