Patent ID: 8121358

Claim:
A method of browsing face regions in digital images in a photo displaying system, the method comprising: detecting a plurality of face regions from a plurality of images; grouping the face regions into a plurality of clusters based on similarities of the face regions; determining a degree of connection between the clusters; modifying the degree of connection between the clusters according to a relationship of the face regions, wherein the step of modifying further comprises: identifying a first image from the images, wherein the first image comprises a first face region belonging to a first cluster and a second face region not belonging to the first cluster; identifying a second image from the images, wherein the second image comprises a third face region belonging to a second cluster and a fourth face region not belonging to the second cluster; determining whether the second face region from the first image is similar with the fourth face region from the second image; and modifying the degree of connection between the first cluster and the second cluster according to the determining result being true; and displaying the face regions according to the degree of connection between the clusters.