| US 7,477,805 B2 | ||
| Electronic album display system, an image grouping apparatus, an electronic album display method, an image grouping method, and a machine readable medium storing thereon a computer program | ||
| Shuichi Ohtsuka, Kanagawa (Japan); and Kazuo Shiota, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 08, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/176,316. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-264555 (JP), filed on Sep. 10, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0056737 A1, Mar. 16, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 9/54 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); H04N 5/76 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 382—305 [382/209; 348/231.002; 707/E17.029] | 12 Claims |
| 1. An electronic album display system for displaying a plurality of images included in an electronic album comprising:
an image storing unit in which the plurality of images are stored;
a person recognizing unit for automatically identifying, by face recognition, a plurality of persons included in each of the
plurality of images, each of the persons corresponding to a person identification number, the result of the person recognition
comprising image identification numbers that correspond to different combinations of a plurality of person identification
numbers;
an image grouping unit for classifying all of the plurality of images into a plurality of different groups based on the result
of the person recognition, the images that belong to the same group including persons that correspond to the same combination
of the person identification numbers, the result of the image grouping comprising group identification numbers, each of which
corresponding to each of the combinations of the person identification numbers;
a representative image selecting unit for selecting a representative image from the images that correspond to the same group
identification number; and
an image display unit for displaying each of the selected representative images consecutively.
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