A digital camera with a printer is a digital camera with a printer and includes a communication unit that communicates with a digital camera with a printer that is another apparatus, and an image composition unit that generates a composite image in which a first image captured by the digital camera with a printer that is an owned apparatus and a second image captured by the other apparatus are composited, in which the communication unit transmits the composite image to the other apparatus. A user of the other apparatus can also obtain the composite image. Accordingly, the composite image can be enjoyed by capturing images using a plurality of cameras.

A family electronic album is created. Representative face images of a family are displayed. The representative face images are dragged and dropped onto corresponding areas among areas that identify family attributes (“father”, “mother”, etc.). Since the family attributes of the representative face images can be ascertained, the family attributes of face images that resemble these face images can be determined. Since images that include all family members and images that include some family members can be determined from among images that include face images the family attributes of which have been determined, these images are laid out in the electronic album.

The present disclosure discloses a photo processing method and an apparatus for grouping photos into photo albums based on facial recognition results. The method includes: performing face detection on multiple photos, to obtain a face image feature set, each face image feature in the face image feature set corresponding to one of the multiple photos; determining a face-level similarity for each pair of face image features in the face image feature set; determining a photo-level similarity between each pair of photos in the multiple photos in accordance with their associated face-level similarities; generating a photo set for each target photo in the multiple photos, wherein any photo-level similarity between the target photo and another photo in the photo set exceeds a predefined photo-level threshold; and generating a label for each photo set using photographing location and photographing time information associated with the photos in the photo set.

A method may include generating a list of frame candidates, the list of frame candidates including a plurality of aspect ratios, based on a characteristic of a display device and an aspect ratio of a base tile; receiving a set of media items, each with a respective aspect ratio (AR), to display on the display device; and for each respective media item in the set of media items: filtering the list of frame candidates based on a respective aspect ratio of the list of frame candidates being within a threshold cropping amount of the AR of the respective media item; and matching the respective media to a frame candidate of the filtered list of frame candidates.

A method for generating a digital image collage is provided. The method includes displaying a collage template on a user interface, wherein the collage template includes populating a plurality of randomly configured apertures with digital images; assigning a weight to each of the apertures based on an area of the apertures; and selecting a new digital image to add in the layout. In response to the user input command, comparing the weights assigned to the respective apertures in the layout to identify an aperture having the greatest weight among the apertures; randomly dividing the aperture having the greatest weight into two new apertures to change the layout to a different arrangement; and populating the two new apertures and the remaining undivided apertures among the plurality of apertures in the layout with the new selected digital image and the previously selected digital images, thereby generating the digital image collage.

A method and apparatus for displaying digital photos on a digital display with a network connection module. The method includes identifying two different photos in a digital photo collection that include a matching photo content, and displaying the two different photos simultaneously in a split screen on the digital display. The two different photos can be matched from related photo clusters. An integrated camera can be used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer to determine photos to display, and can capture gesture-based feedback. The photos can be filtered and cropped at the receiver side.

An image processor is provided which is configured to detect face images from a plurality of image data, to perform same person determination processing based on the detected face images to classify the face images into image groups each including face images of a single person, thereby identifying persons corresponding to the respective image groups, to determine at least one person as a main person from among the identified persons, and to determine at least one person highly related to the main person as an important person from among persons except the main person.

Computer implemented methods for publishing a personalized map are provided that include receiving, via a server computer coupled to at least one client device over a communications network, a plurality of media files; associating each of the plurality of media files with at least one location one each of a plurality of personal maps, wherein the plurality of personal maps comprise a map of a geographic region and a map of a sub-region of the geographic region; and causing an interface to be displayed at the at least one client device, the interface displaying a personalized map of the geographic region with a plurality of slots associated with the plurality of sub-regions thereof, slots having at least one media file associated therewith generated to include content from the at least one media file and slots without at least one media file association generated with solid fill.

A system and method for generating a digital image collage is provided. The method comprises displaying a user interface comprising a collage template including a layout, and a catalog segment; displaying a plurality of digital images in the catalog segment; generating a first aperture in the layout to establish a first arrangement, and populating the first aperture with the first selected digital image; changing the layout from the first arrangement to a second arrangement, wherein the second arrangement comprises randomly dividing the first aperture into a second aperture and a third aperture, populating the second aperture with the first selected digital image, and populating the third aperture with the second selected digital image thereby generating the digital image collage.

A method for proactively creating a photo product includes storing a library of points of interest in a computer storage, detecting one or more images from a user, automatically extracting image capture locations from the images, automatically comparing the image capture locations with the points of interest in the library to obtain one or more identified points of interest, automatically identifying an occasion based on the identified points of interest in the library, automatically selecting, by the computer processor, a photo product type in part based on the occasion, automatically creating a design of a photo product of the photo product type using one or more images from the user, and manufacturing a physical photo product based on the photo product design.