Eastman-kodak Company

Kodak Alaris Inc.

Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC

Other

Apple Inc.

Carestream Health, Inc.

Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Monument Peak Ventures, LLC

Eastman Kodak

Mounument Peak Ventures, LLC

Joseph Anthony Manico

John Randall Fredlund

Dale Frederick McIntyre

David Lynn Patton

Ralph L Piccinino, Jr

John H Rosenburgh

Alexander C Loui

John N Border

Peter O Stubler

Ronald S Cok

Edward Covannon

Michael J Telek

Madhav Mehra

David Kloosterman

Andrew Frederick Kurtz

Joel S Lawther

Young No

Andrew T Cooper

Kenneth Alan Parulski

John P Spoonhower

John K McBride

Loretta E Allen

Andrew C Blose

Amy D Enge

Mark D Wood

Stacie Lynn Hibino

Douglas B Beaudet

Lynn Schilling-Benz

Frances C Williams

John R Squilla

Madirakshi Das

Kevin Michael Gobeyn

Dan Harel

Frank Pincelli

Richard C Reem

Arunachalam T Ram

Andrew Charles Gallagher

John A Agostinelli

Elena A Fedorovskaya

Dwight John Petruchik

Raymond William Ptucha

Kenneth D Corby

David James Cornell

Robert M Goodwin

Patrick A Cosgrove

William C Archie

Richard S Keirsbilck

Daniel M Pagano

Robert Fredric Mindler

Christopher M Muir

Kevin H Blakely

William Yurich Fowlkes

Robert P Cloutier

Jeffrey L Hall

Robert W Spurr

Raymond E Wess

Charles Austin Parker

Paul Teremy

William L Burnham

Jennifer Colleen Perotti

Craig S Willand

Alex David Horvath

David McLaughlin Rakov

Thierry G Vachette

Louis J Beato

Wayne F Niskala

Stephen J Rowan

Dilip K Chatterjee

Syamal K Ghosh

Yongcai Wang

Douglas Robert Robello

Richard Alan Simon

Majid Rabbani

Ronald Myron Wexler

Clark E Harris

Richard N Blazey

Aaron Thomas Deever

Thomas A Mackin

Laura R Whitby

YuanQiao Rao

James C Stoffel

Cynthia S Bell

Wilbert F Janson, Jr

Peter Jerome Cowdery-Corvan

Tomasz A Matraszek

Serguei Endrikhovski

Thomas Joseph Murray

Edward Schofield

Donn B Carlton

Charles I Levey

Edgar G Earnhart

Frank Marino

John B Watkins

Philip R Ashe

Thomas D Weaver

Steven M Belz

Timothy J White

Robert J Parada

Anthony L Tintera

William T Matthias

A system and method for creating customized, personally relevant greeting cards, e-cards, mementos, invitations, decorations, and other types of printed and virtual media to convey affection, friendship, emotional connections, celebration, gratitude, condolence and other types of sentiments to relatives, friends, coworkers, business associates, and acquaintances regardless of the cultural backgrounds of the giver and the recipient.

Cross cultural greeting card system

Embodiments are directed to digital image processing, storage, retrieval, and presentation systems and methods for ordering and ranking visually perceivable facial expressions identified within the selected set of digital images. In addition, arranging for presentation the ordered and ranked set of digital images in response to a user-selection of an emotional expression or range of emotional expressions and presenting the selected arranged set of digital images on a display device.

Method for identifying, ordering, and presenting images according to expressions

Data points, calendar entries, trends, and behavioral patterns may be used to predict and pre-emptively build digital and printable products with selected collections of images without the user's active participation. The collections are selected from files on the user's device, cloud-based photo library, or other libraries shared among other individuals and grouped into thematic products. Based on analysis of the user's collections and on-line behaviors, the system may estimate types and volumes of potential media-centric products, and the resources needed for producing and distributing such media-centric products for a projected period of time. A user interface may take the form of a 'virtual curator', which is a graphical or animated persona for augmenting and managing interactions between the user and the system managing the user's stored media assets. The virtual curator can assume one of many personas with each user and can interact with the user via text/audio messaging.

System and method for predictive curation, production infrastructure, and personal content assistant

A method and system for automated creation of collages from a video sequence is provided. The system and method dynamically extracts key frames from a video sequence, which are used to create the collages shown on a display. By changing the position of cursors, a new set of key frames is extracted and the content of the collage will change correspondingly reflecting the changes in the key frames selection. The method also includes user interface elements to allow a user to change the layout design (e.g., rotate, overlap, white space, image scaling) of the video frames on the collage. In addition, the method includes different ways for browsing the video sequence by using automatically detected semantic concepts in various frames as indexing points. Further, the method includes defining swiping attributes based on motion characteristics (e.g., zoom/pan, motion of object), audio activity, or facial expression for browsing the video sequence.

Method for dynamic creation of collages from mobile video

A method for selecting important digital images in a collection of digital images, comprising: analyzing the digital images in the collection of digital images to identify one or more sets of similar digital images; identifying one or more sets of similar digital images having the largest number of similar digital images; selecting one or more digital images from the identified largest sets of similar digital images to be important digital images; and storing an indication of the selected important digital image in a processor accessible memory.

Method of selecting important digital images

Described herein is a system and method for predictive curation, and production infrastructure. In certain embodiments, the system includes a user interface, which may take the form of a 'virtual curator,' a graphical or animated persona for augmenting and managing interactions between the user and the system managing the user's stored media assets. The virtual curator can assume one of many personas, as appropriate, with each user. Embodiments of the system leverage data points, calendar entries, trends, behavioral patterns to predict and pre-emptively build digital and printable products with selected collections of images without the user's active participation.

A method for determining an impact score for a digital image includes providing the digital image wherein the digital image includes faces; using a processor to determine an image feature for the faces; using the processor to compute an object impact score for the faces, wherein the object impact score is based at least upon one of the determined image features; weighting the object impact score for the faces based on one of the determined image features for a face; using the processor to compute an impact score for the digital image by combining the weighted object impact scores for the faces in the image; and storing the computed impact score in a processor accessible memory.

Imaging workflow using facial and non-facial features

A method for creating navigable views includes receiving digital images, computing a set of feature points for each of the digital images, selecting one of the digital images as a reference image, identifying a salient region of interest in the reference image, identifying other digital images containing a region of interest similar to the salient region of interest in the reference image using the set of feature points computed for each of other digital images, designating a reference location for the salient region of interest in the reference image, aligning the other digital images to the image that contains the designated reference location, ordering the image that contains the designated reference location and the other digital images, and generating a navigable view.

System and method for creating navigable views

Data points, calendar entries, trends, behavioral patterns may be used to predict and pre-emptively build digital and printable products with selected collections of images without the user's active participation. The collections are selected from files on the user's device, cloud-based photo library, or other libraries shared among other individuals and grouped into thematic products. Based on analysis of the user's collections and on-line behaviors, the system may estimate types and volumes of potential media-centric products, and the resources needed for producing and distributing such media-centric products for a projected period of time. A user interface may take the form of a 'virtual curator', which is a graphical or animated persona for augmenting and managing interactions between the user and the system managing the user's stored media assets. The virtual curator can assume one of many personas, as appropriate, with each user. For example, the virtual curator can be presented as an avatar-animated character in an icon, or icon that floats around the screen. The virtual curator can also interact with the user via text messaging, or audio messaging.

A method of recoding a photograph for use in a personal photo identification document such as a passport includes using a digital image capture system, including a digital camera, a computer processor, and memory to store specifications and requirements for a photo print in order to be compliant for use in a user selected photo ID such as a passport for a selected country or jurisdiction, using the digital image capture system to capture a facial image, using facial image processing techniques to provide automatic detection of a face and facial feature points on the facial image, processing the facial image and generating a visual indication of compliance, and when compliant, generating the photograph based on the compliant facial image.

System for producing compliant facial images for selected identification documents

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Joseph Anthony Manico