Method and a system for image processing, a device, and an image record

• US 20050050102A1
• Filed: 06/09/2004
• Published: 03/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd. (Xiaomi Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Ruotsalainen, Petteri, Heinonen, Taisto
• Granted Patent: US 8,072,509 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32 Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device H04N1/38, H04N1/387 take precedence

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for image processing, wherein image data is stored as an image record in digital format. The image record is provided with at least a header part (201), an image data part (202) and an auxiliary data part (203). In the method, at least one defining data record (204) containing auxiliary data is stored in connection with the data record (200), wherein in connection with the processing of the image data, it is selected whether said at least one item of image data is displayed in connection with displaying the image. The invention also relates to a system and a device (1) in which the invention is applied, as well as to an image record (200).

Claims

1. A method for image processing comprising

storing image data as an image record in digital format;

providing the image record with at least a header part, an image data part and an auxiliary data part;

storing at least one defining data record containing auxiliary data in connection with the image record,

wherein in connection with the processing of the image data, the method comprises selecting whether said at least one item of auxiliary data is displayed in connection with displaying the image.

2. The method according to claim 1, comprising providing said at least one defining data record with:

an area definition which indicates a location in the image where the data according to the defining data record is displayed if the auxiliary data is selected to be displayed,

a first auxiliary data field for storing the image data of the area defined by the area definition in a situation in which the auxiliary data is not displayed, and

a second auxiliary data field which contains data about the auxiliary data to be displayed.

3. The method according to claim 2, comprising displaying in a situation, in which the auxiliary data defined by the defining data record is displayed, the image data contained in the first auxiliary data field in the location indicated by the area definition;

and displaying the auxiliary data defined by the second auxiliary data field on top of said image data contained in the first auxiliary data field.

4. The method according to claim 2, comprising displaying in a situation, in which the auxiliary data defined by the defining data record is not displayed, the image data contained in the first auxiliary data field in the location indicated by the area definition.

5. The method according to claim 2, comprising activating an application in connection with displaying at least one item of auxiliary data, wherein said at least one defining data record comprises at least one of the following:

a third auxiliary data field which contains data to be transferred to the application to be activated,

a fourth auxiliary data field, which contains audio data intended to be reproduced in connection with the displaying of said at least one item of auxiliary data.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the application to be activated is an e-mail application, wherein said third auxiliary data field contains an e-mail address.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the application to be activated is a call application, wherein said third auxiliary data field contains a telephone number.

8. A system comprising

means for storing an image in digital format as an image record which comprises at least a header part, an image data part and an auxiliary data part;

means for processing the image record;

means for storing at least one defining data record containing auxiliary data in connection with the image record; and

selecting means for selecting at least one item of stored auxiliary data to be displayed, if necessary, in connection with displaying the image.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein said at least one defining data record comprises:

an area definition which indicates the location in the image where the data according to the defining data record is displayed if the auxiliary data is selected to be displayed;

a first auxiliary data field for storing the image data of the area defined by the field definition in a situation in which the auxiliary data is not displayed; and

a second auxiliary data field which contains data about the auxiliary data to be displayed.

10. The system according to claim 9, comprising means for displaying image data contained in the first auxiliary data field, in the location indicated by the area definition, and for placing the auxiliary data defined in the second auxiliary data field on top of the image data contained in the first auxiliary data field.

11. A device comprising

means for storing an image in digital format as an image record which comprises at least a header part, an image data part and an auxiliary data part;

means for processing the image record;

means for storing at least one defining data record containing auxiliary data in connection with the image record; and

selecting means for selecting at least one item of stored auxiliary data to be displayed, if necessary, in connection with displaying the image.

12. The device according to claim 11, wherein said at least one defining data record comprises:

an area definition which indicates a location in the image where the data according to the defining data record is displayed if the auxiliary data is selected to be displayed;

a first auxiliary data field for storing the image data of the area defined by the area definition in a situation in which the auxiliary data is not to be displayed; and

a second auxiliary data field which contains data about the auxiliary data to be displayed.

13. The device according to claim 12, comprising means for displaying image data contained in the first auxiliary data field, in the location indicated by the area definition, and for placing the auxiliary data defined in the second auxiliary data field on top of the image data contained in the first auxiliary data field.

14. The device according to claim 12, comprising means for activating an application in connection with displaying at least one item of auxiliary data, wherein said at least one defining data record also comprises at least one of the following:

a third auxiliary data field which contains data to be transmitted to the application to be activated;

a fourth auxiliary data field, which contains audio data intended to be reproduced in connection with the displaying of said at least one auxiliary data part.

15. An image record, in which image data is stored in digital format on a computer readable medium, and the image record is provided with at least a header part, an image data part and an auxiliary data part, wherein at least one defining data record containing auxiliary data is stored in the image record, wherein in connection with processing of the image data, it is arranged to be selected whether said at least one item of auxiliary data is displayed in connection with displaying the image.

16. The image record according to claim 15, wherein the image data part contains a single image.

17. The image record according to claim 15, wherein the image data part contains a series of images.