Patent ID: 8884982

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for emphasizing selected objects in digital data of at least one of pictures and video that is stored in digital messages, the messages including sender addresses and being stored in a memory system of a digital messaging system for a plurality of users, the method comprising: identifying, by a processor, picture regions including at least one of faces and persons in the digital data of the messages on the digital messaging system having the same sender address; determining, by the processor sender-relevant picture regions in the identified picture regions that represent a sender of the message based on at least one of: a) a comparison with a reference picture of the sender stored on the memory system; b) a comparison of speech data in the digital data with reference speech data using at least one of speaker recognition methods, speaker verification methods and speaker identification methods, taking into account picture data and speech data in the message; and c) a frequency of occurrence of the identified picture regions in the messages that have the same sender address; and modifying, by the processor, the digital data of the messages so as to emphasize the sender-relevant picture region; wherein the modification of the digital data is performed such that a recipient of the message can undo the modification via a menu dialog.