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Using favorite digital images to organize and identify electronic albums

US7369164B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 11, 2003
Grant dateMay 6, 2008
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Expiry dateApr 11, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99948
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for capturing images using a digital camera and organizing the captured images for storage into electronic albums, comprising the steps of capturing and storing first and second groups of digital images using a digital camera; identifying favorite images for the first and second groups of digital images; storing data in the digital camera identifying the first and second groups of digital images, including data indicating the identified favorite images from the first and second group of digital images; transferring the first and second groups of digital images, and the data identifying the first and second groups of digital images and the identified favorite images, from the digital camera to a computer; producing a first electronic album including the first group of digital images and a second electronic album including the second group of digital images; and using the favorite image from the first group of digital images to represent the first electronic album, and the favorite image from the second group of digital images to represent the second electronic album.

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