US 12,354,406 B2
Methods and apparatus for determining the date of a scanned photo from face data and using such date information
James Gardner, Palm Springs, CA (US)
Assigned to Wrethink, Inc., Del Mar, CA (US)
Filed by Wrethink, Inc., Del Mar, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 31, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/566,680.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/179,051, filed on Apr. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0343684 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 40/00 (2022.01); G06F 16/58 (2019.01); G06N 3/04 (2023.01); G06Q 10/1093 (2023.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 40/178 (2022.01) [G06F 16/5866 (2019.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01); G06Q 10/1093 (2013.01); G06V 40/172 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing method, the method comprising:
determining, for each of a plurality of images with known capture dates and a first object, corresponding first object age information, said first object age information including the age of the first object in a first image with a known first image capture date and the age of the first object in a second image with a known second image capture date;
determining an age of the first object in a scanned image having an unknown image capture date, said scanned image including multiple objects of different ages, said multiple objects of different ages including the first object and a second object;
determining a capture date of the scanned image from the determined age of the first object in the scanned image and said determined first object age information relating known image capture dates of images including said first object to different ages of said first object;
storing the scanned image in a database in chronological image capture date order with captured digital images with known capture dates; and
using the stored images and capture date information to support a date based image query.