Image creating method and imaging apparatus

• US 20050160112A1
• Filed: 12/09/2004
• Published: 07/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Tokkonen, Timo, Rytivaara, Markku, Makela, Jakke, Kolehmainen, Timo, Ojala, Kai
• Application Number:
  US11/009,219
• Publication Number:
  US 20050160112A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3225 of data relating to an image, a page or a document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/55 Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/134 based on three different wavelength filter elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/41 Extracting pixel data from a plurality of image sensors simultaneously picking up an image, e.g. for increasing the field of view by combining the outputs of a plurality of sensors

Abstract

A method of creating an image file and an image capturing apparatus comprising an image sensing arrangement comprising a lens and a sensor array are provided. The image sensing arrangement is arranged to produce an image. The apparatus is configured to create an image file comprising an image and information as metadata about how to generate at least one additional image.

Claims

2-1. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising means for creating an image file comprising an image and at least one additional image as metadata.

13. A method of creating an image file comprising an image and additional metadata, the method comprising:

producing at least two images, and

including in the image file information about how to generate at least one additional image as metadata.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

including at leas one additional image in the image file as metadata.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

including in the image file a link to at least one additional image.

16. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

compressing the additional images differently than the actual image of the image file.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

storing the additional images in a different format as the actual image.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the additional images are of different resolution as the actual image of the image file.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the metadata comprises an image taken with a wide-angle imaging sensing arrangement.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein the metadata comprises an image taken with a telephoto imaging sensing arrangement.

21. The method of claim 13, wherein the metadata comprises an image taken with an infra-red imaging sensing arrangement.

22. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

including at least one image as a comment filed JPEG2000 coding of the image.

24. The method of claim 13, further comparing:

creating images in a streaming format.

25. The method of claim 23 further comprising:

including in an image file of a streaming format at least one still image as metadata.

26. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

including in an image file of a streaming format as metadata.