Abstract:
A visualization system for displaying and permitting the mixing, matching, combining, and manipulation of digital pictures related to a number of sources, vendors, and/or digital photograph owners (who may be clients of the system owner, and are hereafter referred to as clients) is disclosed. The pictures in the system, as well as some components of the system itself, offer color correction and/or color calibration, in order to permit users to ascertain the true relational/relative and/or absolute color of the item or items being viewed. The system provides manual and automatic methods for viewing individual digital photographs, and/or combined sets of digital photographs, from one or more angles. The system can provide a sense of movement in relation to items or combined sets of items, which remain combined even during movement and/or manipulation. The system can offer an enhanced sense of texture using high-density, digital photographs, along with overlaid and/or referential descriptive textual data, as well as other features that add visual detail. The system can integrate with other electronic systems, in order to provide a seamless electronic shopping experience. The system may offer users a number of other features, which may include, but not be limited to, creating stored lists of items, and viewing feedback and commentary from other users. In order to boost business operation, the system can provide clients with product interest statistics, while enabling the invention owners and clients to control, manage, and approve account-related data, including, but not limited to user and/or group system authorization and authentication. Digital photograph owners can provide free-form descriptive text related to pictures, and/or choose descriptive text from a set of data types and variables. The system permits clients to authorize and benefit from the resale of rights to display digital photographs to other parties who are associated with the system. The system can gather, analyze, and present statistical data, from an entire chain of digital photograph owners and digital photograph (resale) buyers. The system can produce and display client billing data related to accounts.