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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2005
Applicant:
C. Brian Atkins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
C. Brian Atkins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods, machines, and machine-readable media for arranging images on pages of an album are described. In one aspect, an album has multiple potential states each corresponding to a respective arrangement of the images on the pages. In accordance with one method, the album is received in an initial state. A series of successive states from the initial state to an end state is determined. Each of the successive states is selected from candidate states in a respective neighborhood of a corresponding preceding one of the states in the series based on a heuristic evaluation of the candidate states.