| 摘要 |
<p>Automated maintenance of media content such as digital photographs and video in a pool (110) is provided where the time interval that each piece of media content remains in the pool (110) is tracked and modified by user-behavioral factors. This virtual age of the media content is depicted on a representative image (505) displayed by a graphical user interface through the use of visual metaphors that simulate the physical characteristics of an object such as a printed photograph as it ages. As the virtual age of the content increases, visual metaphors including fading or yellowing (512), and physical deterioration such as tattering, creasing, and ripping (518) are overlaid as effects onto the displayed image. Older content is displayed using other respective images which have increased fading or yellowing and greater physical deterioration until an image appears to crumble to dust, at which point the associated media content is automatically deleted from the pool.</p> |
