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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2014
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kazuma Tsukagoshi, Kanagawa, JP;

Yukinori Yokoyama, Kanagawa, JP;

Karin Kon, Kanagawa, JP;

Yuto Furukawa, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/403 (2013.01); G06F 17/3028 (2013.01); G06F 17/30244 (2013.01); G06F 17/30265 (2013.01); Y10S 707/915 (2013.01);
Abstract

The saving device for image sharing includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire the images offered by a sharer of the images, a sharee information storing unit configured to store sharee information with respect to at least one sharee, a subject assessing unit configured to assess whether or not a person subject is included in the acquired images, an image associating unit configured to associate the images assessed as not including a person subject with the images assessed as including a person subject, based on the sharee information, and a shared image determining unit configured to determine the images to be shared with the sharee or sharees from among the associated images and the images assessed as including a person subject, based on the sharee information. The image sharing system and an image sharing method use such a device.


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