Patent Document ID: 9483697
Application ID: 14870303
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A server device comprising: a communication interface operable to communicatively couple the server device to a display device over a network; and a control system comprising at least a processor and a memory storing program codes operable to: obtain social relationship information identifying a social relationship between a reference person and one of a plurality of other subjects that appear in a plurality of images, the plurality of images associated with the reference person; determine a subject affinity defining a subject affinity score between the reference person and the one of the plurality of other subjects based on the social relationship information, the plurality of other subjects corresponding to subjects other than the reference person; and determine an image affinity for each of the plurality of images based on the subject affinity for the one of the plurality of other subjects, each image affinity defining an image affinity score between the reference person and a corresponding one of the plurality of images based on the one of the plurality of other subjects appearing in the one of the plurality of images; and select, by the server device, based on the image affinity for each of the plurality of images, one or more images from the plurality of images.