Optimal viewing of digital images and voice annotation transitions in slideshows

• US 20060265643A1
• Filed: 05/17/2005
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Palm, Inc. (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Su, Yingfeng, Saft, Keith, Crowley, Matthew W.
• Granted Patent: US 7,587,671 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/209
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

A system and a method are disclosed for optimally viewing a non-square aspect ratio photo or video within a non-square aspect ratio display area of a screen. In addition, a system and a method are disclosed for positioning and storing a reference point (e.g., a relative center point) of an image within a display area of a screen. Further, in a slideshow configuration, a system and a method allows for transition between images using sound annotations associates with a particular image.

Claims

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7. A method for storing an image relative to a reference point of the image viewed on a screen, the method comprising:

determining a coordinate system for use with a display area of a screen;

displaying a first view of the image;

displaying a second view of the image;

identifying coordinates of the reference point within the coordinate system of the display area displaying the second view;

saving the coordinates; and

associating the coordinates with the image.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising retrieving reference coordinates associated with the image.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising displaying the second view of the image in response to retrieval of the reference coordinates.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the reference point is a center of the display area.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the image is a JPEG image.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the image is a MPEG image.

22. The method of claim 12, wherein steps of the method are stored as instructions on a computer readable medium for execution by a processor.

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14. A method for varying transitions between still images configured for viewing in a slideshow format, the method comprising:

applying a time to transition between still images for the slideshow format;

determining whether an image includes an associated sound annotation;

altering, in response to the image including the sound annotation, the time to transition to a subsequent image, the altered time corresponding to a length of the sound annotation; and

reverting to the applied time to transition in response to the subsequent image lacking a sound annotation.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the sound annotation comprises a voice annotation.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising receiving a time transition length from a user input.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising receiving a first time length and a second time length for the time transition from a user input.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the first time length is applied to a first transition and a second time length is applied to a second transition.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein reverting to the applied time transition comprises reverting to the first time length or the second time length.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the sound annotation comprises an audio file.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the audio file comprises one of a mp3 file format, a mp4 file format, a rm file file format, and wms file formate.

23. A computer program product comprising:

computer readable storage medium adapted to store computer program code for execution by a processor,

the computer program code comprising instructions corresponding to;

determining a coordinate system for use with a display area of a screen;

displaying a first view of the image;

displaying a second view of the image;

identifying coordinates of the reference point within the coordinate system of the display area displaying the second view;

saving the coordinates; and

associating the coordinates with the image.

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24. The computer program product of claim 23, wherein the instructions further comprise retrieving reference coordinates associated with the image.

25. The computer program product of claim 24, wherein the instructions further comprise displaying the second view of the image in response to retrieval of the reference coordinates.

26. The computer program product of claim 23, wherein the image is a JPEG image.

27. The computer program product of claim 23, wherein the image is a MPEG image.

25-1. The computer program product of claim 23, wherein the reference point is a center of the display area.