Abstract:
A system and method for creating customized, personally relevant greeting cards, e-cards, mementos, invitations, decorations, and other types of printed and virtual media to convey affection, friendship, emotional connections, celebration, gratitude, condolence and other types of sentiments to relatives, friends, coworkers, business associates, and acquaintances regardless of the cultural backgrounds of the giver and the recipient.
Abstract:
A method of detecting and indicating to a user of an application for image printing that an image is unsuitable for printing. Unsuitability for printing of an image typically will be triggered when print size and image resolution are mismatched. Novel user interface algorithms assist the user to correctly modify an image in order to satisfy suitability requirements.
Abstract:
An automatic advertisement system creates and processes a user's digital photograph and advertisement images from selected advertisers. The system provides a criteria specification tool to allow advertisers to accurately specify their target audiences. The system also provides a criteria specification tool to allow the user to specify his/her preferences of advertisement on his/her digital photograph production. The system further provides various layouts to prevent the user from clipping out advertisement images all at once. The system further allows advertisers to track their advertising results and allows the user to maintain his/her privacy. The system can be applied to contents other than advertisement image, such as announcements, personal messages, invitation cards and so on.
Abstract:
Methods are provided which are adapted to create print order files that are customized for one or more particular printer (s) . The methods use digital printers that have specific printing capabilities and involve the production and storage of profiles that define the printing capabilities of the printers Preferably, the profile (s) is (are) stored on a removable storage medium, on which a digital camera then stores images and print order files.
Abstract:
A method and system are provided for allowing a user to create actions to be taken by a server. One aspect of the present invention includes; in response to a user accessing the server from a client device, providing the user with an option to create an action item, wherein the action item represents an action that can be taken with respect to at least one data object accessible to the server; enabling the user to associate an executable software object with the action item; and in response to the server receiving an identification of the action item and an identification of at least one data object, invoking the executable software object associated with the identified action item for automatically performing the action selected by the user on the at least one data object.
Abstract:
A photo album is edited and printed distributed over a client server system. A server system stores low quality and high quality digital representations of photographs. The server system sends low quality digital representations to a client computer remote from the server system in association with respective identifiers of the photographs. A user edits an electronic representation of pages of the photo album at the client computer, using an interactive display with the low quality digital representations of interactively selected photographs. After editing the client computer sends an editing result to the server system, including identifiers of the selected photographs. The server system retrieves an prints the stored high quality digital representation of the selected photographs identified by the identifiers. The user also selects positions of the photographs on pages, preferably using positions from selectable templates. The client computer may also perform user selected transformations of the photographs, transformation commands being sent to the server system to execute corresponding transformations on the high quality representations before printing.
Abstract:
Collecting images of a patron in an entertainment venue is performed by facial recognition of the patron's face within the images, simplifying the storage (37) and distribution of the images (39) for a patron. In order to enhance the reliability of the facial recognition system (31), information about the patron (33) that is not directly related to most facial recognition systems (31), including clothes, height, other associated people, use of glasses and jewelry, disposition of facial hair, and more, can be used. Some of the characteristics used can be specific to a particular date or event, and which will not be more generally characteristic of the patron. The facial recognition system (31) can also be used to identify (37) the patron requesting images to be collected. The present invention also relates to the use of facial recognition in sorting and collecting images from an electronically-stored image collection, enabling the easy retrieval of images that are related to a particular person or set of people.
Abstract:
A digital camera has a microprocessor, which has installed therein an encryption algorithm. The algorithm has associated with it, a unique camera identification number (UCIN), the UCIN being recognisable by a remotely held decryption key. The decryption key is typically held by an authorised image processor who, on receipt of the camera, decrypts the images and publishes, distributes or prints the decrypted images as instructed by the camera owner. After the images have been processed, the authorised image processor may update the encryption algorithm and return the camera to the owner for re-use. typically the camera will be provided at very low cost and a charge made to the owner for each image processing order made.