Portable wireless communication terminal, picked-up image editing apparatus, and picked-up image editing method

• US 20050010568A1
• Filed: 08/09/2004
• Published: 01/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Homma, Atsushi, Nagatomo, Shoichi, Furuta, Shinichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,493,138 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/576 associated with a pictorial or graphical representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/64 file transfer between terminals download of applications H04M1/72406; transfer of messages, e.g. SMS, e-mail or MMS H04M1/7243
• 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 1/00912 Arrangements for controlling a still picture apparatus or components thereof not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0015 Control of image communication with the connected apparatus, e.g. signalling capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 for more than one processing mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access

Abstract

A picked-up image editing apparatus comprises a memory which stores a mixture of multimedia data with processing disable information and multimedia data without processing disable information, an image pick-up device which picks-up an image of an object as one of a still picture and a motion picture, an image data producing unit which produces image data based on an image picked-up by the image pick-up device, a combining instruction issuing unit which issues a combining instruction to combine the produced image data with the multimedia data stored in the memory, and an output content storing unit which, when the multimedia data targeted to be combined has processing disable information, stores only output contents based on a processing result.

Claims

1. A portable wireless communication terminal having an acquiring device which acquires multimedia data, a wireless communication function, and a downloading function for downloading multimedia data over a network by using the wireless communication function, the portable wireless communication terminal comprising:

a memory which stores the multimedia data acquired by using the acquiring device and the multimedia data downloaded over the network;

a combining instruction issuing unit which issues a combining instruction to combine the multimedia data with each other;

a combining unit which, when the combining instruction issued by the combing instruction issuing unit is detected, reads out multimedia data to be combined from the memory, and combines the read out data;

a storage control unit which, when the multimedia data combined by the combining unit includes downloaded data, stores storage addresses of respective multimedia data stored in the memory so as to be associated with each other, and, when the multimedia data combined by the combining unit does not include downloaded data, stores the combined multimedia data in the memory;

a transmission instruction issuing unit which issues a transmission instruction to transmit the combined multimedia data to an outside of the portable communication terminal;

a determination unit which, when the multimedia data is read out by the transmission instruction issuing unit, determines whether or not the storage addresses of multimedia data are stored in the memory; and

a disabling unit which, when the determining unit determines that the storage addresses of multimedia data are stored in the memory, disables transmission of the combined multimedia data.

2. A portable wireless communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a detector which detects copyright information included in the multimedia data, wherein the storage control unit determines whether or not the multimedia data combined by the combining unit includes downloaded data according to whether or not the detector detects copyright information from respective multimedia data targeted to be combined.

3. A portable wireless communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a call arrival notifying unit which notifies the wireless communication terminal of call arrival by the wireless communication function, wherein the combined multimedia data is output when the call arrival is notified by the call arrival notifying unit.

4. A portable wireless communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring device includes an image pick-up device, and the multimedia data comprises still picture data and motion picture data which are picked-up by the image pick-up device and downloaded over the network by the downloading function.

5. A portable wireless communication terminal according to claim 4, further comprising a data determination unit which determines whether or not the still picture data is acquired by the image pick-up device, wherein the storage control unit determines whether or not the multimedia data combined by the combining unit includes downloaded data according to whether or not the determination unit determines that the still picture data targeted to be combined is acquired by the image pick-up device.

6. A portable wireless communication terminal according to claim 4, wherein, when the combined multimedia data does not include the downloaded data and includes motion picture data picked-up by the image pick-up device, the storage control unit causes the memory to store the combined multimedia data as motion picture data.

7. A portable wireless communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring device includes a sound recording device, and the multimedia data comprises sound data recorded by the sound recording device and downloaded over the network.

8. A picked-up image editing apparatus comprising:

a memory which stores a mixture of multimedia data with processing disable information and multimedia data without processing disable information;

an image pick-up device which picks-up an image of an object as one of a still picture and a motion picture;

an image data producing unit which produces image data based on an image picked-up by the image pick-up device;

a combining instruction issuing unit which issues a combining instruction to combine the produced image data with the multimedia data stored in the memory; and

an output content storing unit which, when the multimedia data targeted to be combined has processing disable information, stores only output contents based on a processing result.

9. A picked-up image editing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising a storage control unit, when the multimedia data targeted to be combined by the combining instruction issuing unit does not have processing disable information, stores into the memory the image data and multimedia data which are combined with each other.

10. A picked-up image editing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the processing disable information comprises flag information.

11. A picked-up image editing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the processing disable information comprises copyright information.

12. A picked-up image editing method comprising:

storing into a memory a mixture of multimedia data with processing disable information and multimedia data without processing disable information;

picking-up an object;

producing image data based on the picked-up image;

issuing a combining instruction to combine the produced image data with the multimedia data stored in the memory; and

when the multimedia data targeted to be combined has processing disable information, storing only output contents based on a processing result.

13. A picked-up image editing method according to claim 12, further comprising, when the multimedia data targeted to be combined has processing disable information, storing into the memory the image data and multimedia data which are combined with each other.

14. A picked-up image editing method according to claim 12, wherein the processing disable information comprises flag information.

15. A picked-up image editing method according to claim 12, wherein the processing disable information comprises copyright information.