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Stephen L. Shaffer
Researcher at Eastman Kodak Company
Publications - 10
Citations - 1276
Stephen L. Shaffer is an academic researcher from Eastman Kodak Company. The author has contributed to research in topics: Digital image & Thumbnail. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 10 publications receiving 1276 citations.
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System and method of constructing a photo album
TL;DR: In this article, a method of constructing a photo album including the steps of: providing a plurality of digital images; generating an sticker sheet of reduced resolution images from the digital images, the sticker sheet including a machine readable means for selecting one or more of images represented by the thumbnails to be included in the photo album; selecting one of the thumbnail images on the sticker sheets; reading the selected thumbnails from the stickers with a scanner.
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Albuming method with automatic page layout
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an albuming method that includes the automatic adaptation of the page layout of a plurality of images to a boundary condition of an event, based on event-determining information that relates to one or more events to which the images pertain.
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Photocollage generation and modification
TL;DR: In this article, a method and system for employing image recognition techniques to produce a photocollage from a plurality of images wherein the system obtains a digital record for each image, assigns each digital record a unique identifier and stories the digital records in a database; automatically sorts the digital record using at least one date type to categorize each of the digital objects according to at least three predetermined criteria.
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Photocollage generation and modification using image recognition
TL;DR: In this paper, a method and system for employing image recognition techniques to produce a photocollage from a plurality of images wherein the system obtains a digital record for each image, assigns each digital record a unique identifier and stories the digital records in a database.
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Security system for controlling access to images and image related services
TL;DR: In this paper, a secure method for granting customer access to images and image related services at an image fulfillment center is proposed, which includes the steps of: scanning a customer film image to generate high and low resolution digital versions of the image; appending a unique ID and associated security key to the high resolution version of the original image and storing the appended image at the fulfillment center; encrypting the ID with a shared encryption key and appending the encrypted ID and the security key on the low resolution image to the customer's request for services relating to the image and sending the