Patent ID: 8924890

Claim:
A method for searching electronic media comprising: displaying a plurality of generic-search glyphs, each of the plurality of generic-search glyphs representing a search type, the plurality of generic-search glyphs comprising a person glyph, a photo glyph, an object glyph, a location glyph, a keyword glyph, phrase glyph, specific date and time glyph, a range of dates and times glyph, geo-location glyph, camera setting glyph, and an image quality glyph; receiving first user input identifying a generic-search glyph; displaying a plurality of refine-search glyphs based on the first user input, each of the plurality of refine-search glyphs narrowing the generic-search glyph to a particular subject of the generic-search glyph, each particular refine-search glyph of the plurality of refine-search glyphs comprising a stored image captured by a user modified to depict only parts of the stored image relevant to a subject of the particular refine-search glyph and to black out parts of the stored image not relevant to the subject matter of the particular refine-search glyph; displaying a representation of stored electronic media based on the first user input; receiving second user input identifying a refine-search glyph; and updating the representation of stored electronic media displayed based on the second user input.