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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2014
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/21 (2006.01); H04N 9/82 (2006.01); H04N 9/804 (2006.01); H04N 5/77 (2006.01); H04N 1/32 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/2166 (2013.01); G06F 17/3028 (2013.01); H04N 1/215 (2013.01); H04N 1/32122 (2013.01); H04N 5/225 (2013.01); H04N 5/772 (2013.01); H04N 9/8042 (2013.01); H04N 9/8227 (2013.01); H04N 2201/325 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3226 (2013.01); H04N 2201/3278 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method of preparing images captured by a lifelog camera for efficient transfer from the camera to another device. The lifelog camera generates a corresponding thumbnail for each image that it captures, and an automated analysis engine analyzes the thumbnails for interestingness and, in some cases, for similarity.