Patent Document ID: 8189880
Application ID: 11754933

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: extracting facial features of a collection of digital photos; clustering the collection of digital photos into a plurality of face groups, at least first and second face groups of the plurality of face groups each including multiple digital photos, each photo having a facial feature satisfying a programmed facial similarity requirement; associating an annotation with the at least first face group; adding the second face group to the first face group; and responsive to the adding, automatically associating the second face group with an annotation of the first face group.

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Claim 9:
9. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising: displaying in a first view area an image representation of the at least one face group, the image representation being selectable by a user to select the at least one face group; and displaying in a second view area thumbnails of the multiple digital photos of the at least one face group when selected by the user.