Patent Document ID: 7660445
Application ID: 12104779
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for selecting an emphasis image from a collection of images based on facial identification, said method comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining a collection of digital images; (b) detecting image patterns indicative of the presence of one or more faces in the digital images, thereby identifying one or more detected faces for each image in which a face is detected; (c) recognizing one or more faces from the detected faces for each of the images in which a face is detected (d) scoring an image based on the relative frequency of occurrence of a recognized face within the collection of images, thereby producing an emphasis image characteristic of the most frequently occurring face in the collection of images; (e) detecting text in the digital images; (f) generating statistics pertaining to the detected text, wherein said statistics represent a likelihood that the text describes the collection of images; and (g) scoring the image based on the statistics pertaining to the detected text and the relative frequency of occurrence of a recognized face within the collection of images, thereby producing an emphasis image.