Groupon, Inc.

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Sinclair Hamilton Hitchings

Val Agostino

Axel Albin-Lax

Travis Neilson

A system and method allows a user to define books of pictures and customizable text, and HTML code is generated from such definition to allow the books to be displayed on a browser. Based on the user's book definitions or viewers activities, the individual's interests, moods and/or emotions may be identified and ads may be identified and displayed to such person that correspond to such interests, moods or emotions.

Method and apparatus for creating web content and identifying advertisements for users creating and viewing content

Devices and methods for overlaying text content on photos are provided. A digital image is selected. Unique foreground colors from the image are extracted, filtered and color clusters are identified for each foreground color. Color frequency and cluster count within the image are calculated. Text is entered by a user or provided programmatically. Multiple candidate locations for text content are evaluated to identify one or more optimal caption locations on the digital image. One or more suggested text colors are identified for each of the candidate location regions, based on factors including color contrast with background image content at the candidate text location region. The optimal text location regions and colors can be utilized to overlay text content onto the initial digital image to generate an output image. The process can be applied to sampled frames from a video feed. The process can be applied to a mobile device camera application by sampling and compressing frames from an electronic viewfinder video feed, overlaying text content on the preview video feed, capturing a full-resolution image in response to actuation of a camera shutter button, and processing the full-resolution image to yield a final full-resolution captioned output. The result can be transmitted to a social network service or application.

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