Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Rob Sangster

Barry James Drake

Christopher Mark Paola

David John Maunder

Suren Ephraim Richard Jacobs

Disclosed is a method of determining one or more event subsets within a plurality of images. Each image is associated with time and location data specifying the time and location of capture of the image. The method determines a time variable for each adjacent pair of images in a capture time ordered list of the plurality of images. A distance variable for each adjacent pair of images in the ordered list of images is then determined. The method determines speed data of the image capture device at the time and location of capture of each image. The ordered list of images is then partitioned into one or more event subsets on the basis of a cost function, the cost function being determined in accordance with a normalization of the time variable and distance variable, wherein the time variable and the distance variable are weighted relative to the speed data.

Image clustering method

Methods and systems for selecting one or more images from a plurality of captured images are disclosed. One method comprises the steps of: analysing the plurality of captured images to recognise faces in the captured images using a facial recognition process (step); updating a count variable relating to a unique face each time the face is recognised in the captured images; selecting one or more unique faces when the related count variable satisfies a predetermined condition (step); and selecting a reduced number of the images which together include at least one instance of each of the selected faces (step).

Presenting image subsets based on occurrences of persons satisfying predetermined conditions

A method of browsing media items is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of displaying () representations of the media items on a display (), defining () a filter criterion for a display pointing device (), browsing () the displayed representations of the media items by moving the pointer of the pointing device about the display (), and displaying () in a pop-up window, while the pointer of the pointing device () is designating a selected one of the displayed representations of the media items, a representation of the designated media that satisfies the filter criterion.

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Mosman, Australia

Rob Sangster