Patent Document ID: 9858504
Application ID: 14285163
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for selecting important digital images in a collection of digital images, comprising: using a processor to automatically analyze digital images in the collection of digital images to identify a plurality of sets of similar digital images; identifying one or more subsets of the plurality of sets of similar digital images having the largest number of similar digital images; using the processor to automatically select one digital image from each of the subsets of the plurality sets of similar digital images having the largest number of similar digital images as each being an important digital image, wherein each one digital image selected from each of the subsets is selected as being the important digital image based at least in part on an image quality level threshold value; storing a respective indication of importance along with each one digital image selected as being the important digital image in a processor accessible memory; automatically displaying each one digital image selected as being the important digital image on a Graphic User Interface (GUI) in a single view of the GUI, wherein automatically displaying each one digital image selected as being the important digital image comprises displaying each one digital image selected as being the important digital image arranged according to the respective indication of importance; using the processor to evaluate the displayed each one digital image selected as being the important digital image to assess a relative level of importance with respect to each other; and using the processor to reorder the displayed each one digital image selected as being the important digital image on the GUI according to the relative level of importance.