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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2011
Jerremy Holland, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Jan Erik Solem, San Francisco, CA (US);
William E. Hensler, Shoreline, WA (US);
Jerremy Holland, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Jan Erik Solem, San Francisco, CA (US);
William E. Hensler, Shoreline, WA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for automatically identifying famous people and/or iconic images are provided. Object descriptors (or 'faceprints') of the famous people and iconic images are generated and 'shipped' with a digital image management application used by an end-user. The digital image management application analyzes a digital image (generated, for example, by a digital camera operated by the end-user) to detect an object, such as a face, and generates a faceprint. The digital image management application compares the faceprint to the faceprints of the famous people and/or iconic images. If a match is found, then data that identifies the corresponding person or object is displayed to the end-user.