System and method for remote controlled photography

• US 20040066457A1
• Filed: 10/04/2002
• Published: 04/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Obrador, Pere, Silverstein, D. Amnon
• Application Number:
  US10/263,717
• Publication Number:
  US 20040066457A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/211.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00281 with a telecommunication apparatus, e.g. a switched network of teleprinters for the distribution of text-based information, a selective call terminal details of transmission H04N1/00095; establishing a communication with one of a facsimile machine or another apparatus sharing a single line H04N1/32704; interfacing cordless telephone terminals with an accessory to increase the functionality of user interface H04M1/72409
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet

Abstract

Using a joint video and still image pipeline technology, a network may be deployed through the Internet so that a user may acquire high resolution photographs using a handheld device and a remote camera. The remote device may also include an identification tag embedded with the user'"'"'s personal information, so that the remote camera may identify the user in the photographs by reading the identification tag. The remote camera may optionally annotate the photographs, which may be sent to the user through the network.

Claims

1. A method for remote controlled photography, comprising:

using one or more photo-video acquisition devices as a view-finder to allow a video stream captured by the one or more photo-video acquisition devices to be viewed on a remote device;

controlling the remote device to select a high resolution photograph from the video stream viewed on the remote device; and

using an identifying tag to identify a subject in the high resolution photograph.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising annotating the high resolution photograph.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the high resolution photograph is annotated using the subject'"'"'s personal information.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising reading the identifying tag by the one or more photo-video acquisition devices.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying tag is located on the subject.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying tag is a passive radio tag.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying tag emits a signal, and wherein the one or more photo-video acquisition devices identify the subject in the high resolution photograph using the signal emitted from the identifying tag.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising connecting the remote device to the one or more photo-video acquisition devices.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising connecting the remote device to the one or more photo-video acquisition devices through a network.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising connecting the remote device to the one or more photo-video acquisition devices through a point-to-point connection.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the video steam and the high resolution photograph in a storage on a network server.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising posting the video stream and the high resolution photograph on a web page.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

requesting payment information from a user who wishes to download the video stream and the high resolution photograph from the web page; and

enabling the user to download the video stream and the high resolution photograph.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending the video stream and the high resolution photograph to the subject through a network.

15. An apparatus for remote controlled photography, comprising:

one or more photo-video acquisition devices capable of acquiring video streams and high resolution photographs; and

a remote device capable of connecting to the one or more photo-video acquisition devices through a network and acquiring the high resolution photographs, using videos streamed from the one or more photo-video acquisition devices as a view-finder,

wherein the one or more photo-video acquisition devices use an identifying tag to identify a subject in the high resolution photograph.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the photo-video acquisition devices are remote video cameras.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the one or more photo-video acquisition devices annotate the high resolution photographs.

18. A method for remote controlled photography, comprising:

acquiring a high resolution photograph by a photo-video acquisition device;

identifying a subject in the high resolution photograph by reading an identifying tag on a remote device carried by the subject, wherein the identifying tag contains the subject'"'"'s personal information; and

sending the high resolution photograph to the subject through a network.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising annotating the high resolution photograph.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising storing the high resolution photograph in a storage on a network server.