Patent ID: 7466845
Filing Date: 2008-12-16
Classification: G06F,G06T,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A photo system, comprising: a display; an image capture device in communication with the display; and image processing logic in communication with the display and the image capture device; wherein the display, the image capture device, and image processing logic cooperate to capture an image of a paper-based photo image multiple times, each time at a different angle, and a illumination correction module adjusts the illumination characteristics of the generated digital photo image based on a comparison of the multiple captures to generate a digital photo image from the corrected captured image; a database configured to store digital photo images including the digital photo image created from the paper-based photo image; and a content retrieval engine adapted to accept as a query input the content of the digital photo image created from the paper-based photo image, to search the database for one or more digital photo images matching the content of the query input, and to retrieve each matching digital photo image.