DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIGS.
1, 2 and 3 are flowcharts illustrating the steps carried out for accessing a collection of images in a database in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
The image database can be any computer database that can be used to store images or any form of electronic data.
In step 105 of FIG.
1, each of the images in the database is sorted into one of a plurality of time-based clusters.
As used herein, an "image" is any image or electronic data file that is stored in electronic form in any type of electronic storage medium or computer memory.
An image can be any digital image captured from any type of digital image capturing device, such as, for example, digital video cameras, digital cameras, video capture cards or any other image capturing device.
Alternatively, an image can be an analog image captured from, for example, cameras, video cameras or any other analog image capture device, that are scanned or otherwise digitized and stored as a digital image.
An image can also be an electronic document, such as, for example, a multimedia document that contains images, video, sound, etc.
Thus, those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that the image can be any type of electronic data file that a user can access from a collection of electronic data files.
As used herein, a "time-based cluster" is a subset of the entire collection of images contained in the database, in which the images in the time-based cluster are related by any parameter or parameters.
According to exemplary embodiments, the images in a time-based cluster can be related in time, such as, for example, the capture time of the images, the access time of the images, the time the images were digitized, or any other type of temporal relationship of the images.
For example, the images in a time-based cluster can be from a certain time period.
Alternatively, the images in a time-based cluster can relate to a certain event.
However, those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that the images in a time-cluster can be related in any manner to form a time-based cluster
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