Display of the thumbnails of a photographic support on a terminal

• US 20050162518A1
• Filed: 05/18/2002
• Published: 07/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Adelbert, Santie V., Vau, Jean-Marie, Furon, Olivier A.
• Application Number:
  US10/510,487
• Publication Number:
  US 20050162518A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• 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 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32771 in response to a request, e.g. for a particular document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32776 using an interactive, user-operated device, e.g. a computer terminal, mobile telephone H04N1/32782, H04N1/32784 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0015 Control of image communication with the connected apparatus, e.g. signalling capability

Abstract

The present invention is in the technical field of imaging. It relates to an application used in the photographic field. The invention relates more especially to a process applied in the field of hybrid photography, i.e. based on analog and digital image data. The invention process enables the display of images on a screen a terminal, from an identifier of an analog photographic support representing the images. The invention process operates the instructions of a program enabling a user of the terminal to display virtually in real time one or more digital images corresponding to the thumbnails of the photographic support.

Claims

1. A process enabling a digital image to be displayed on a terminal equipped with a keyboard and a display screen, the process comprising the steps of:

a) composing from the keyboard of the terminal, an electronic message including at least one identifier of a photographic support comprising thumbnails;

b) sending from the terminal, the electronic message composed in said step a) to a messaging server, said messaging server being identified by a unique telephone number;

c) automatically transmitting said electronic message to a processing server;

d) automatically processing, from the processing server, the electronic message sent, in order to select a set of digital images corresponding to the thumbnails of the identified photographic support and included in the electronic message;

e) automatically transmitting to the terminal a notification of the availability of the set of selected digital images;

f) automatically displaying on the screen of the terminal the notification of the availability of the selected digital images;

g) validating, from the terminal, a display request for the available digital images;

h) automatically transmitting the available digital images to the terminal; and

i) automatically displaying said digital images on the screen of the terminal.

2. The process according to claim 1, wherein, during said step b) an automatic invoicing is further carried out, the value of the invoiced sum being a function of a content of the electronic message composed at said step a).

3. The process of claim 1, wherein the display request comprises activating, from the keyboard of the terminal, a universal resource location (URL) mentioned in the notification of availability.

4. The process of claim 1, wherein from the display on the screen of all the identifiers specific to the thumbnails of a photographic support, it enables the selection of at least one identifier of said set, and in that it enables the validation of the identifier selection performed, so as to display on the screen of the terminal, the digital image corresponding to the selected identifier.

5. The process of claim 1, such that in the transmission of a plurality of digital images to the terminal, said digital images are automatically displayed successively in a display sequence whose frequency can be programmed.

6. The process of claim 1, such that in the transmission of a plurality of digital images to the terminal, said digital images are displayed successively according to a request manually performed from the keyboard of the terminal.

7. The process of claim 1, wherein the photographic support comprises an identifier located in a zone of said photographic support.

8. The process of claim 1, wherein the photographic support is a photographic index comprised of photographic paper.

9. The process of claim 1, wherein the photographic support is a photographic film strip.

10. The process of claim 1, wherein the identifier of the photographic support is placed on a material support distinct from said photographic support.

11. The process of claim 1, wherein the terminal is a portable terminal.

12. The process of claim 11, wherein the portable terminal is a cell phone.