Apple Inc.

Karl Hsu

Todd Stephen Sachs

Justin S Titi

Elliott B Harris

Brett M Keating

Andreas W Wendker

Jeffrey A Brasket

Francois M Jouaux

Melissa Turner

Ron D Lue-Sang

Mikael Rousson

Ernest Kim

Vincent Yue-Tao Wong

Claus Mølgaard

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Patrick L Coffman

Brendan John Langoulant

Claus Molgaard

Marco Zuliani

Simon Bovet

Judy Halchin

Stephen M Decker

Neil V Jhaveri

Angela Guzman

Jonathan Michael Deutsch

Vincent Y Wong

Michael Rousson

Nick Woods

Alicia Thorsen

Jeff Brasket

Systems and methods for improving automatic selection of keeper images from a commonly captured set of images are described. A combination of image type identification and image quality metrics may be used to identify one or more images in the set as keeper images. Image type identification may be used to categorize the captured images into, for example, three or more categories. The categories may include portrait, action, or 'other.' Depending on the category identified, the images may be analyzed differently to identify keeper images. For portrait images, an operation may be used to identify the best set of faces. For action images, the set may be divided into sections such that keeper images selected from each section tell the story of the action. For the 'other' category, the images may be analyzed such that those having higher quality metrics for an identified region of interest are selected.

Automated selection of keeper images from a burst photo captured set

For cameras that capture several images in a burst mode, some embodiments of the invention provide a method that presents one or more of the captured images differently than the remaining captured images. The method identifies at least one captured image as dominant image and at least another captured image as a non-dominant image. The method then displays each dominant image different from each non-dominant image in a concurrent presentation of the images captured during the burst mode. The dominant images may appear larger than non-dominant images, and/or appear with a marking that indicates that the images are dominant.

Identifying dominant and non-dominant images in a burst mode capture

Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems determine that an indication that a received message was sent in response to another message is present in the received message, parse a stored message, in response to the indication being present, for at least a partial match between a subject of the received message and contents of a subject of the stored message, and for at least a partial match between sender and recipient participants of the received message and sender and recipient participants of the stored message, and display the received message as grouped with the stored message. A further exemplary feature includes parsing text of the received message for text that is redundant of text of the stored message, determining that a minimum threshold of consecutive matching characters has been reached, and displaying the received message with the consecutive matching characters at least partially hidden from view.

Grouping email messages into conversations

An embodiment of the invention is directed to a method and apparatus for automatically providing network services in a way that improves upon the prior art. Systems implementing aspects of the invention can, for instance, provide developers with a mechanism for creating Web Services without having to write low-level SOAP, XML, or WSDL code. The system utilizes a rule-based approach to provide a mechanism for dynamically reconfiguring the system with requiring redeployment of the entire system.

Method and apparatus for automatically providing network services

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Karl Hsu