Selecting images using relationship weights

摘要

A method of making a selected-image collection including providing a set of relationships between an individual and a plurality of different persons, each relationship in the relationship set having a pre-determined relationship weight value; providing a collection of images, the image collection including images having at least two persons of the plurality of different persons present in the images; using a processor to select from the relationship set a relationship weight value corresponding to each person present in each image in the image collection; assigning an image weight value to each image in the image collection, the image weight value corresponding to a combination of the selected relationship weight value(s); and selecting images from the image collection based on the image weight values to make the selected-image collection.

主权项

1. A method of making a selected-image collection, comprising:
(a) providing a set of relationships between an individual and a plurality of different persons, each relationship in the relationship set having a pre-determined relationship weight value; (b) providing a collection of images, the image collection including images having at least two persons of the plurality of different persons present in the images; (c) using a processor to select from the relationship set a relationship weight value corresponding to each person present in each image in the image collection; (d) assigning an image weight value to each image in the image collection, the image weight value corresponding to a sum of the selected relationship weight values; and (e) selecting images from the image collection based on the image weight values to make the selected-image collection.