Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Alex Penev

Mark Ronald Tainsh

Sammy Chan

Shinichi Mitsumoto

Generating a plurality of event clusters by segmenting an image set. Each event cluster includes at least one image from the image set. The image set, having time metadata corresponding to each image in the set, is accessed. A time interval between each pair of neighboring images in the image set is determined. The neighboring images in each of the pairs are adjacent in a time ordered sequence. The time interval for each of the pairs is determined from time metadata associated with each image in the pair. An adjustment value is determined for one or more of the determined time intervals based on at least one of predetermined time of day information and calendar information. The images in the image set are segmented to generate the plurality of event clusters. Segmentation boundaries for each event cluster are determined using at least the determined adjustment value.

Method, system and apparatus for segmenting an image set to generate a plurality of event clusters

An image processing apparatus includes a first obtaining unit to obtain a number of images in which a pair of a first person and a second person simultaneously appears, out of a plurality of images. A detection unit detects whether the pair appears in a target image group, which is one of a plurality of image groups into which the plurality of images is classified. In determining whether the pair appears in the target image group, it is determined that the pair appears in the target image group not only in a case when the target image group includes an image in which the first person and the second person simultaneously appear, but also, in a case when the target image group includes images in which the first person and the second person appear separately.

Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that extract person groups to which a person belongs based on a correlation

A method of selecting an image captured on an image capture device () is disclosed. A captured image is displayed on a display () associated with the image capture device (). A viewer image of a viewer viewing the captured image displayed on the display () is captured using the image capture device (). The captured image and the viewer image are compared to identify at least one common feature in the captured image and the viewer image. The captured image is selected if the at least one common feature is identified in both the captured image and the viewer image.

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