With the addition of directional information and gesture based input in a location based services environment, a variety of service(s) can be provided on top of user identification or interaction with specific object(s) of interest. For instance, when a user gestures at or points at a particular item, or gestures at a particular location or place, this creates an opportunity, e.g., an advertising opportunity, for anyone having an interest in that particular item or place to communicate with the user regarding that item or related items at a point in time when the user's focus is on the particular item. User context for the interaction can also be taken into account to supplement the provision of one or more interactive direction based services.

Data services based on gesture and location information of device

A yearbook system is provided. The yearbook system provides a single, extensive resource to plan, create, educate about, sell, and distribute yearbooks. The system further provides an integrated yearbook system management and yearbook production system to enable the production of the yearbook to a printed output. A yearbook server hosts a client site and a client database. The client site is enables the school to plan, create, sell and distribute a yearbook. Further, they system may be used to create the yearbook online. A production server hosts a production database synchronizes with the yearbook server, providing images to the client for use in creating the yearbook, and accepting completed created pages submitted by the school from the yearbook server. The production server translates the created pages into the format to proceed through the regular preparation for production of the yearbook.

System and method for yearbook creation

A system and method for design and creation of customized output is provided. The method includes establishing a template, developing a base output from the template, and customizing the base output to create a customized output. During each of these steps, the system and method provide flexibility such that the user is able to place and modify content on the template, base product, or output. Further, the system may be configured for collaborative creation of the customized output.

Method and system for creating customized output

Automatic event recognition and cross-user photo clustering

The present disclosure relates to a photo sharing method and device, and the method includes: receiving (101), from a user, a party photo sharing instruction regarding a to-be-shared party photo set, where the to-be-shared party photo set has party marker information and includes at least one party photo; acquiring (102) a face recognition result obtained by conducting face recognition on each party photo contained in the to-be-shared party photo set, and determining a face image set contained in the to-be-shared party photo set according to the face recognition result; determining (103), from each contact photo contained in a contact list, each target contact photo respectively matched with each face image in the face image set; and respectively sending (104) the to-be-shared party photo set to each target contact according to contact information corresponding to the target contact photo.

Photo sharing method and device

The saving device for image sharing includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire the images offered by a sharer of the images, a sharee information storing unit configured to store sharee information with respect to at least one sharee, a subject assessing unit configured to assess whether or not a person subject is included in the acquired images, an image associating unit configured to associate the images assessed as not including a person subject with the images assessed as including a person subject, based on the sharee information, and a shared image determining unit configured to determine the images to be shared with the sharee or sharees from among the associated images and the images assessed as including a person subject, based on the sharee information. The image sharing system and an image sharing method use such a device.

Yukinori Yokoyama

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Saving device for image sharing, image sharing system, and image sharing method