Jian Hai He

US Patent:

20150142782, May 21, 2015

Filed:

Nov 14, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/541382

Inventors:

- New York NY, US
Jian He - New York NY, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707722

Abstract:

A method for associating metadata to a set of images of a subject, the method executed on a computer processor obtains a taxonomy with initial attributes that are associated with the subject and forms an image set by receiving at least one initial image that contains the subject and accessing accounts on a social media platform to identify and store, in the image set, one or more related images from each account that also show the subject. The method associates, with one or more images from the image set, text data obtained from the accessed accounts as metadata and updates the taxonomy according to the metadata, then displays at least a portion of the image set and at least a portion of the metadata associated with the image set.