Method for sharing multimedia data

• US 20060216021A1
• Filed: 03/05/2004
• Published: 09/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Vau, Jean-Marie, Touchard, Nicolas Patrice Bernard
• Application Number:
  US10/550,115
• Publication Number:
  US 20060216021A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 396/429
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/489 using time information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00137 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00145 from a remote location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00148 Storage information retrieval G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00172 directly from a still digital camera or from a storage medium mounted in a still digital camera H04N1/0018 takes precedence
• 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 1/32776 using an interactive, user-operated device, e.g. a computer terminal, mobile telephone H04N1/32782, H04N1/32784 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras

Abstract

Method for sharing multimedia data and especially images captured by many cameras provided with image transmission means, comprising: the reception of digital image routing messages that include image data (40) and at least some event data (42); the linking to each image of an identifier according to the event data, and the saving of said digital images; the reception of image requests (50) also comprising at least some event data (52); the search for at least one saved image, linked to an identifier according to an event data (42) corresponding to the event data (52) of the request, and if the search finds at least one image, the transmission of the images to an addressee.

Claims

1. ) A method for sharing multimedia data captured by a plurality of cameras or sound recorders provided with multimedia data transmission means, comprising

the reception of multimedia data routing messages, the routing messages including multimedia data (40) and at least some event data (42),

the linking to each multimedia data of an identifier according to the event data, and the saving of said multimedia data,

the reception of multimedia data requests (50) also comprising at least some event data (52),

the search for at least one saved multimedia data, linked to an identifier according to an event data (42) corresponding to the event data (52) of the request, and

if the search finds at least one multimedia data, the transmission of the multimedia data to an addressee.

2. ) A method for sharing multimedia data according to claim 1, wherein the multimedia data include data relative to images, video clips, sound recordings, text and/or any combination of such data

3. ) A method according to claim 1, wherein the event data contained in the multimedia data routing message are set according to the place and date of transmission of the routing message.

4. ) A method according to claim 1, wherein the event data are established by a telecommunications operator (30) transmitting the multimedia data routing messages.

5. ) A method according to claim 4, wherein the linking of the images with an identifier is performed by the telecommunications operator or by an image sharing service provider.

6. ) A method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the search operations for saved multimedia data and their transmission to an addressee are conditional operations.

7. ) A method according to claim 6, wherein the multimedia data requests include at least one data usable as a condition of execution of the search and transmission operations.

8. ) A method according to claim 7, wherein the data usable as a condition of execution is an event data contained in the image request.

9. ) A method according to claim 1, wherein the routing messages and multimedia data requests are from cameras/sound recorders provided with a connection to a telecommunications network, such as mobile phones with built-in image sensor.

10. ) A method according to claim 1, wherein the image requests are from multimedia data capturing devices and image displays provided with a connection to a telecommunications network, such as mobile phones with viewing screen, suited to image or video.

11. ) A method according to claim 1, comprising, on reception of the routing messages, a comparison of the event data of the multimedia data routing messages with the previously recorded event data, the comparison of the data conditioning the processing of the multimedia data.

12. ) A program that can be downloaded to portable communication equipment, comprising instructions suited to sending routing and/or multimedia data request messages to execute the steps of the method according to claim 1.