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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1998
Stephen L. Shaffer, Penfield, NY (US);
John R. Squilla, Rochester, NY (US);
John K. McBride, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for employing image recognition techniques to produce a photocollage from a plurality of images wherein the system obtains a digital record for each of the plurality of images, assigns each of the digital records a unique identifier and stories the digital records in a database; automatically sorts the digital records using at least one date type to categorize each of the digital records according at least one predetermined criteria; employs means responsive to the sorting step to compose a photocollage from the digital records. The method and system employ data types selected from pixel data; metadata; product order information; processing goal information; or customer profile to automatically sort data typically by culling or grouping to categorize according to either an event, a person, or chronologically.