Patent ID: 7035467
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method for determining the general semantic theme of a group of images, said method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a plurality of digital images, whereby each digital image is identified as belonging to a specific group of images; (b) extracting one or more image feature measurements from each of the digital images in an image group; (c) using the one or more image feature measurements to produce an individual image confidence measure that an individual image belongs to one or more semantic classifications, said individual image confidence measure produced for a plurality of the digital images in an image group; (d) using the individual image confidence measures for the images in the image group to produce an image group confidence measure that the image group belongs to one or more semantic classifications; and (e) using the image group confidence measure to decide whether the image group belongs to a selected one or to none of the semantic classifications, whereby the selected semantic classification constitutes the general semantic theme of the group of images; wherein step (a) comprises the step of identifying the specific image group by relating the images to a roll of film from which the digital images were obtained, to a time or date of image capture, to a time or date the images were provided into step (a), or to the occurrence of a roll change in a film from which the digital images were obtained.