Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC

Eastman-kodak Company

Omnivision Technologies, Inc.

Kodak Alaris Inc.

Monument Peak Ventures, LLC

Apple Inc.

Aaron Thomas Deever

Andrew Charles Gallagher

Bruce Harold Pillman

Robert Gretzinger

John N Border

Majid Rabbani

Keith Stoll Karn

Frank Razavi

John Robert McCoy

Kenneth Alan Parulski

John Randall Fredlund

John Thomas Compton

James E Adams, Jr

Amy D Enge

Efrain Orlando Morales

Joseph Anthony Manico

Andrew Frederick Kurtz

John F Hamilton, Jr

Steven M Bryant

Russell J Palum

Rajan L Joshi

Robert J Parada

Gabriel Fielding

Todd J Anderson

John Norvold Border

Todd Jeffrey Anderson

Amy Dawn Enge

John R Mccoy

Russell Jay Palum

A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same social network and using a processor to access the social network to determine a relationship between a viewer and the user. The method further includes using the processor to determine a set of summarization parameters based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and using the processor to reduce the number of images or the length of the video from the digital image collection using the determined set of summarization parameters to be viewed by the viewer.

Sharing digital media assets for presentation within an online social network

A method produces an improved high resolution image. This method includes capturing low resolution images and a high resolution image and combining the low resolution images to provide an aggregate low resolution image. The method further includes reducing the resolution of the high resolution image to provide an image representative of a low resolution image at a low resolution setting of the image capture device; interpolating the representative low resolution image to provide an interpolated high resolution image; and calculating a residual image from the high resolution image and the interpolated high resolution image. The method also includes combining the representative low resolution image and the aggregate low resolution image to provide a final low resolution image and using the final low resolution image and the residual image to provide the improved high resolution image.

Using captured high and low resolution images

A method for producing an improved high resolution image is disclosed including capturing low resolution images and a high resolution image; combining the low resolution images to provide an aggregate low resolution image; reducing the resolution of the high resolution image to provide an image representative of a low resolution image that could have been captured by the image capture device; interpolating the representative low resolution image to provide an interpolated high resolution image; calculating a residual image from the high resolution image and the interpolated high resolution image; combining the representative low resolution image and the aggregate low resolution image to provide a final low resolution image; and using the final low resolution image and the residual image to provide the improved high resolution image.

Summarizing image collection using a social network

A method for storing a video summary for a digital video sequence captured with a digital video capture device, comprising: capturing a digital video sequence with the digital video capture device, wherein the digital video sequence includes a plurality of video frames; storing the digital video sequence in a processor-accessible memory; identifying one or more key video snippets, each key video snippet corresponding to a set of video frames from the stored digital video sequence; assembling the key video snippets to form a video summary; and storing the video summary in a processor-accessible memory by storing metadata associated with the stored digital video sequence, wherein the metadata provides an indication of the video frames corresponding to the video summary.

Storing a video summary as metadata

A digital video camera system that provides a video summary using a method that includes: designating a reference image containing a particular person; capturing a video sequence of the scene using the image sensor, the video sequence including a time sequence of image frames; processing the captured video sequence using a video processing path to form a digital video file; during the capturing of the video sequence, analyzing the captured image frames using a person recognition algorithm to identify a subset of the image frames that contain the particular person; forming the video summary including fewer than all of the image frames in the captured video sequence, wherein the video summary includes at least part of the identified subset of image frames containing the particular person; storing the digital video file in the storage memory; and storing a representation of the video summary in the storage memory.

Video summary including a particular person

A system and method for determining and correcting for imaging device motion during an exposure is provided. According to various embodiments of the present invention, multiple sets of image pixels are defined on an image sensor, where each set of pixels is at least partially contained in the output image area of the image sensor. Signals from each set of image pixels are read out once or more during an exposure, motion estimates are computed using signal readouts from one or more sets of image pixels, and signal readouts from one or more sets of the image pixels are processed to form the final output image.

Determining and correcting for imaging device motion during an exposure

A method of producing a digital video with reduced motion blur or increased brightness, including capturing a digital video using an exposure time that reduces image blur; selecting a first series of sequential images from the digital video capture; combining pixel values of said images to produce a first intermediate image that is brighter than each of the selected sequential images; choosing and processing a reference image to create a second intermediate image that is less blurry than the first intermediate image; identifying moving regions among the selected sequential images; replacing pixel values of moving regions in the first intermediate image with corresponding pixel values from the second intermediate image to produce a first digital video image having reduced motion blur or increased brightness; and repeating these steps for a second series of sequential images that includes at least one image from the first series of sequential images.

Method for improved digital video image quality

A digital video camera system that provides a video summary using a method that includes: specifying reference data, wherein the reference data indicates a feature of interest; capturing a video sequence of the scene using the image sensor, the video sequence including a time sequence of image frames; processing the captured video sequence using a video processing path to form a digital video file; during the capturing of the video sequence, analyzing the captured image frames using a feature recognition algorithm to identify a subset of the image frames that contain the feature of interest; forming the video summary including fewer than all of the image frames in the captured video sequence, wherein the video summary includes at least part of the identified subset of image frames containing the feature of interest; storing the digital video file in the storage memory; and storing a representation of the video summary in the storage memory.

Video summary including a feature of interest

A method for ranking key video frames for a digital video having a time sequence of video frames, comprising using a processor to perform the steps of: analyzing the digital video to determine a camera fixation pattern; determining a set of key video frames for the digital video; and ranking the key video frames responsive to the camera fixation pattern.

Ranking key video frames using camera fixation

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Pittsford, NY, United States of America

Aaron Thomas Deever