Patent ID: 8406461
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A computer system for producing image products, comprising: storage for storing one or more digital templates and a plurality of one or more digital images, each digital template having a plurality of one- or more digital openings and each digital image having pixels, each digital opening having stored in association therewith data indicating one of a plurality of seasons corresponding to said each digital opening, the digital template including at least two digital openings each having an associated season, and each digital image having stored in association therewith data indicating one of the plurality of seasons corresponding to said each digital image; a processor for automatically analyzing the pixels of the one or more digital images to determine which one of a plurality of seasons is best depicted by each of the one or more digital images, for storing data in association with each of the one or more digital images for indicating its depicted season, for automatically digitally disposing one of said digital images into each of said digital openings whose associated season matches the season associated with said one of said digital images; means for producing one of said digital templates having said one of said digital images disposed in said one of said digital openings of said digital template; the storage includes storage locations corresponding to one or more seasons, and wherein the one or more digital images are stored in a storage location having a matching corresponding season; and the processor further ranks the one or more digital images stored in the storage location having the matching corresponding season in order of the degree to which the image is representative of a season a determined quality of each of the one or more digital images and a digital image is selected for disposition into one of said digital openings based at least in part on the ranking.