System and method for automatically creating a photo calendar

摘要

System and method are disclosed for creating a photo calendar. A computer storage medium stores images taken in a time period spanning a plurality of capture months. A computer processor automatically divides the images into groups based the capture months, distributes the images in one of the capture month to one or more calendar months according to an adjacency distribution function, and creates a design of a photo calendar comprising a plurality of calendar months and images distributed in the calendar months.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for creating a photo calendar, comprising:
storing, in a computer storage, images taken in a plurality of capture months; automatically creating a design of a photo calendar comprising a plurality of calendar months by a computer processor, wherein dates within each of the calendar months are to be associated with one or more of images in the design of the photo calendar; selecting a first image from the images stored in the computer storage; calculating differences between the capture month of the first image and the calendar months in the design of the photo calendar; and automatically distributing the first image to one of the calendar months in the design of the photo calendar according to an adjacency distribution function that decreases as a function of a difference between the capture month of the first image and the respective calendar month that the first image is distributed to.