Patent ID: 7298895
Filing Date: 2007-11-20
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A computer-mediated method for obtaining and automatically classifying images into events, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a group of images from a digital source, wherein said images are in chronological order and lack other date and time information; (b) clustering the images into smaller groups based on chronological image similarity of nearby images by computing histograms of the images and comparing histogram intersection values obtained therefrom with one or more thresholds, whereby the clustering based on chronological image similarity is done in at least one stage by comparing each image with its direct neighboring images in said chronological order; and (c) evaluating the clustered images against a final condition related to at least one of a predetermined group maximum for the number of smaller groups and a predetermined maximum number of isolated pictures, whereby the smaller groups are classified as events if the final condition is met.