Eastman-kodak Company

Kodak Alaris Inc.

Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC

Other

Apple Inc.

Eastman Kodac Company

Andrew Charles Gallagher

Edward B Gindele

Jiebo Luo

Alexander C Loui

Aaron Thomas Deever

Kevin Edward Spaulding

Andrew C Blose

Kenneth Alan Parulski

Raymond William Ptucha

Peter O Stubler

Cathleen D Cerosaletti

Joseph Anthony Manico

David N Nichols

Madirakshi Das

Amy D Enge

Neal Eckhaus

Jason R Oliver

Samuel M Fryer

John N Border

Andrew Frederick Kurtz

Bruce Harold Pillman

Majid Rabbani

Nathan D Cahill

Charles Austin Parker

Robert T Gray

Louis J Beato

Minwoo Park

Jeffrey Clarence Snyder

John Randall Fredlund

Lawrence Allen Ray

James E Adams, Jr

Dustin Lee Winters

Jay S Schildkraut

Michael J Telek

John D Buhr

John A Weldy

Russell J Palum

Kevin Michael Gobeyn

Peter D Burns

Richard B Wheeler

Stacie Lynn Hibino

Amit Singhal

Efrain Orlando Morales

Gustav J Braun

Karin Topfer

Geoffrey John Woolfe

Robert M Goodwin

Martin E Oehlbeck

Nestor M Rodriguez

Robert J Parada

Keath T Chen

Wei Hao

William Vernon Fintel

Gabriel Fielding

Anthony Scalise

Keith A Jacoby

Bryan D Kraus

Michael W Dupin

Parag Singla

Alex Lopez-Estrada

Jens C Farmer

Henry Kautz

Walter E Bruehs

Dhruv Batra

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 for improving a stereo image including a left view image and a right view image, comprising: using a data processor to automatically analyze the stereo image to determine an original stereo quality score responsive to relative positions of corresponding points in the left view image and the right view image; specifying a set of one or more candidate modifications to the stereo image; determining revised stereo quality scores based on each of the candidate modifications to the stereo image; selecting a particular candidate modification that produces a revised stereo quality score which indicates a higher quality level than the original stereo quality score; forming an output stereo image corresponding to the selected particular candidate modification; and storing the output stereo image in a processor-accessible memory.

Method for determining stereo quality score and automatically improving the quality of stereo images

A method of producing a stereo image from a temporal sequence of digital images, comprising: receiving a temporal sequence of digital images; analyzing pairs of digital images to produce corresponding stereo suitability scores, wherein the stereo suitability score for a particular pair of images is determined responsive to the relative positions of corresponding features in the particular pair of digital image; selecting a pair of digital images including a first image and a second image based on the stereo suitability scores; using a processor to analyze the selected pair of digital images to produce a motion consistency map indicating regions of consistent motion, the motion consistency map having an array of pixels; producing a stereo image pair including a left view image and a right view image by combining the first image and the second image responsive to the motion consistency map; and storing the stereo image pair in a processor-accessible memory.

Producing 3D images from captured 2D video

Summarizing image collection using a social network

A method of producing a stereo image from a digital video includes receiving a digital video including a plurality of digital images captured by an image capture device; and using a processor to produce stereo suitability scores for at least two digital images from the plurality of digital images. The method further includes selecting a stereo candidate image based on the stereo suitability scores; producing a stereo image from the selected stereo candidate image wherein the stereo image includes the stereo candidate image and an associated stereo companion image based on the plurality of digital images from the digital video; and storing the stereo image whereby the stereo image can be presented for viewing by a user.

Determining a stereo image from video

A method for associating event times or time periods with digital images in a collection for determining if a digital image is of interest, includes storing a collection of digital images each having an associated capture time; comparing the associated capture time in the collection with a special event time to determine if a digital image in the collection is of interest, wherein the comparing step includes calculation of a special event time associated with a special event based on the calendar time associated with the special event and using such information to perform the comparison step; and associating digital images of interest with the special event.

Methods and systems for annotating images based on special events

A printed dynamic anaglyph design apparatus is provided having a source of left eye information and right eye information, a memory data regarding colorant characteristics and a processor. The processor determines a colorant type map. At least one mutable colorant and at least one non-mutable colorant are selected for a colorant type map so that the printed dynamic anaglyph image has a first appearance state in which the at least one mutable colorant is in the first colorant state and is color matched to at least one of a left eye information and a right eye information and so that when the image is exposed to an external stimulus the mutable colorant changes color to provide a second appearance state having a color in a difference region that spectrally overlaps a spectral filter in one eye of a pair of stereo color glasses.

Dynamic anaglyph design apparatus

Identifying collection images with special events

Methods are described that provide dynamic anaglyph images with a first appearance state and a second appearance state. At least one mutable colorant and at least one non-mutable colorant are selected for a colorant type map so that the printed dynamic anaglyph image has a first appearance state in which the at least one mutable colorant is in the first colorant state and is color matched to at least one of a left eye information and a right eye information and so that in the second appearance state printed the mutable colorant is in a second colorant state in which the at least one mutable colorant provides a color that spectrally overlaps a spectral filter in one eye of a pair of stereo color glasses so that three dimensional effects can be perceived.

Printed dynamic anaglyph image method

A method for determining an event classification for digital images, comprising: receiving one or more digital images; detecting one or more man-made light emitting sources within the one or more digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected man-made light emitting sources in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the one or more digital images.

Event classification method using light source detection

A method for determining an event classification for digital images, comprising: receiving one or more digital images; detecting one or more lit candles within the one or more digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected lit candles in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the one or more digital images.

Event classification method using lit candle detection

A method for detecting, scaling, and positioning handwritten information from hardcopy media, the method includes the steps of digitizing the media and detecting handwritten information; analyzing the media to determine an available location in the digitized image for placement; determining the orientation of the media and handwritten information; and orienting, scaling, and positioning the detected handwritten information. The method further includes storing or using the digitized image side with the handwritten information.

Use of handwritten notations from photographs

A method for automatically identifying persons in digital media assets associated with a database of individual user accounts, comprising: providing access to a database of individual user accounts, wherein the database includes connections between the individual user accounts; receiving a digital media asset associated with a first individual user account; analyzing the received digital media asset to detect an unidentified person; designating collections of digital media assets associated with the first individual user account and other connected individual user accounts; training person identifiers for the previously identified persons by analyzing digital media assets containing the previously identified persons; using a processor to identify the detected unidentified person using the trained person identifiers; and associating metadata providing an indication of the one or more identified persons with the received digital media asset.

Method of person identification using social connections

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Brockport, NY, United States of America

Andrew Charles Gallagher