Method of sending digital photographs

• US 20030011682A1
• Filed: 07/10/2002
• Published: 01/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Sellen, Abigail Jane, Morgan, Andrew Dudley
• Application Number:
  US10/191,433
• Publication Number:
  US 20030011682A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00413 using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options H04N1/00464 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0075 by a user operated remote control device, e.g. receiving instructions from a user via a computer terminal or mobile telephone handset
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0086 Image transceiver H04N2201/0093 and H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3266 of text or character information, e.g. text accompanying an image H04N2201/3226 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

A method of specifying the delivery of a digital photograph from a digital camera via a digital communications network provided with delivery means, the digital camera having a processor communicatively connectable to the digital communications network, the method comprising: supplying the processor with a digital photograph; supplying the processor with input to enable delivery coordinates for the digital photograph to be determined; supplying the processor with input specifying a delivery format in which the digital photograph is to be delivered.

Claims

1. A method of specifying the delivery of a digital photograph from a digital camera via a digital communications network provided with delivery means, the digital camera having a processor communicatively connectable to the digital communications network, the method comprising:

supplying the processor with a digital photograph;

supplying the processor with input to enable delivery coordinates for the digital photograph to be determined;

supplying the processor with input specifying a delivery format in which the digital photograph is to be delivered.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the delivery means with which the digital communications network is provided are selected from a group comprising:

a printer and a postal service, facsimile transmission, electronic mail transmission, display in a digital photo frame.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the delivery coordinates are of a type included within a set of predetermined types.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the delivery coordinates are selected from a group comprising:

a postal address, a fax number, an electronic mail address, a network address.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the delivery format is selected from a group comprising postal delivery, a facsimile transmission, an electronic mail communication, data transmission over the network.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising supplying the processor with text for delivery together with the digital photograph.

7. A method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising providing a database holding an identity of a recipient together with delivery coordinates pertaining to the said recipient, supplying the processor with the identity of the recipient and operating the processor to retrieve the delivery coordinates of the recipient from the database.

8. A method as claimed in claim 7 further comprising the processor determining delivery means in accordance with the delivery coordinates associated with the said recipient on the database.

9. A method as claimed in claim 7 further comprising the processor offering a plurality of delivery means to the user for selection, the delivery means being in accordance with the delivery coordinates associated with the said recipient on the database.

10. A computer program to enable the sending of a digital photograph from a digital camera, the digital camera having a processor communicatively connectable to a digital communications network, the program being executable to cause the processor to receive a digital photograph, to receive input to enable the processor to determine delivery coordinates, to receive input specifying the delivery format in which the digital photograph is to be delivered, and to cause the delivery of the digital photograph to delivery means via the said digital communications network.

11. A computer program as claimed in claim 10 wherein the delivery format specified is selected from a group comprising:

postal delivery, facsimile transmission, electronic mail communication, data transmission over the network.

12. A computer program as claimed in claim 10 wherein the delivery coordinates determined are selected from a group comprising:

a postal address, a fax number, an electronic mail address, a network address.

13. A computer program as claimed in claim 10 configured to cause the processor to access a database in which is stored an identity of a recipient together with delivery coordinates pertaining to the recipient, the program thereby enabling the processor to retrieve, from the database, the delivery coordinates pertaining to the recipient on receiving input comprising the said identity of the recipient.

14. A computer program stored on a data carrier to enable the sending of a digital photograph from a digital camera, the digital camera having a processor communicatively connectable to a digital communications network, the program being executable to cause the processor to receive a digital photograph, to receive input to enable the processor to determine delivery coordinates, to receive input specifying the delivery format in which the digital photograph is to be delivered, and to cause the delivery of the digital photograph to delivery means via the said digital communications network.

15. A computer program executing on the processor of a digital camera, the processor being communicatively connectable to a digital communications network, the program being arranged to cause the processor to receive a digital photograph, to receive input to enable the processor to determine delivery coordinates, to receive input specifying the delivery format in which the digital photograph is to be delivered, and to cause the delivery of the digital photograph to delivery means via the said digital communications network.

16. A computer program executing on a processor on a server connected to a digital communications network to enable the sending of a digital photograph from a digital camera, the program being arranged to enable the processor to receive a digital photograph, to receive input to enable the processor to determine delivery coordinates, to receive input specifying the delivery format in which the digital photograph is to be delivered, and to cause the delivery of the content of the digital data file to delivery means via the digital communications network.

17. A method of delivering a digital photograph comprising:

receiving the digital photograph from a digital camera, and further receiving delivery coordinates of a type included within a set of predetermined types;

providing the digital photograph in a format appropriate for delivery to delivery co-ordinates of that type; and

sending the digital photograph provided to the delivery coordinates.