System and method for synchronization of media data

• US 20030030733A1
• Filed: 08/08/2001
• Published: 02/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Seaman, Mark D., Williams, Eric E.
• Application Number:
  US09/924,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20030030733A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/239
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24556 Aggregation; Duplicate elimination
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals

Abstract

A method, device, and logic for synchronizing captured data from a recorder, such as image data from a digital camera, with stored data in a storage medium. The system includes determining whether any two sets of the captured and stored data have the same first data attribute, further determining whether any two captured and stored data sets having the same first attribute at the same second and third attributes, and deleting captured data sets having the same first, second, and third data attributes. The first data attribute may be a non-calculated data attribute, such as the size, name, and time. At least one of the second and third data attributes is preferably a calculated data attribute, such as a checksum.

Claims

1. A method of synchronizing captured data from a recorder with stored data in a storage medium, comprising the steps of:

determining whether any set of the captured data and set of the stored data have the same first data attribute;

further determining whether any captured data sets and stored data sets having the same first attribute have the same second and third data attributes; and

deleting captured data sets having at least the same first, second, and third data attributes as a storage data set.

2. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the first data attribute is a non-calculated data attribute.

3. The method recited in claim 1 wherein at least one of the second and third data attributes is a calculated data attribute.

4. The method recited in claim 2, wherein the non-calculated data attribute is selected from the group consisting of size, name, and time.

5. The method recited in claim 2, wherein the calculated data attribute is a checksum.

6. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the first data attribute is size.

7. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the second and third data attributes are selected from the groups consisting of name, time and checksum.

8. A computer readable medium for synchronizing captured image data with stored image data in a storage medium, comprising:

logic for determining whether any set of the captured and set of the stored image data have a same size attribute;

logic for further determining whether captured data sets and stored data sets having the same size attribute also have at least two other data attributes that are the same; and

logic for deleting captured data sets having the same size attribute and the same two other attributes.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein at least one of the two other data attributes includes a calculated data attribute.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the calculated attribute is a checksum.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the at least two other data attributes includes a non-calculated data attribute.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the non-calculated data attribute is selected from the group consisting of name and time.

13. A system for synchronizing captured image data from a camera with stored image data in a storage medium, comprising:

means for determining whether any two sets of the captured and stored image data have a same size and attribute;

means for further determining whether any two sets of captured and stored data having the same size attribute also have at least two other data attributes that are the same; and

means for deleting captured data sets having the same size and attribute.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising means for transferring all sets of captured image data from the camera to the storage medium prior to determining whether any sets of the captured and stored image data have a same size attribute.