Method and a device for managing digital media files
First Claim
1. A method comprising obtaining a digital image captured via a camera, visualizing the image on a display, obtaining control information at least about a user-defined area on the visualized image, specifying on the basis of the user-defined area a link area on the image, obtaining another digital image, and associating the link area with said another image.
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Abstract
A method and an electronic device such as a digital camera or a camera phone for managing digital media files such as photo images. A user of the device may define link areas on the latest image captured via a camera to be automatically associated with the subsequently taken images. Thus image structures called image chains are formed while still continuing the image capturing process. Such chains can be navigated through during the image capturing process or later on.
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63 Claims
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1. A method comprising
obtaining a digital image captured via a camera, visualizing the image on a display, obtaining control information at least about a user-defined area on the visualized image, specifying on the basis of the user-defined area a link area on the image, obtaining another digital image, and associating the link area with said another image.
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18. An apparatus comprising
a data input device for obtaining a digital image captured via a camera, and a display for visualizing the image, a control input device for receiving control information at least about a user-defined area on the visualized image, and a processing unit configured to specify, on the basis of the user-defined area on the visualized image, a link area on the visualized image to be associated with at least one another image.
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31. A method comprising
providing at least one image chain, said at least one image chain comprising multiple digital images and link information about a number of links between them, each image of the image chain being linked to at least one another image of the image chain, visualizing a number of images belonging to the image chain, said number of images including a selected image determined by the device or indicated by a user input signal, visualizing the links between at least said selected image and other images belonging to the chain, and supplementary information relating to at least said selected image or a link having the selected image as one end point thereof, obtaining control information from a corresponding user input signal, and specifying on the basis of the control information a second image of the chain to be selected subsequently.
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47. An electronic device capable of storing digital images comprising
a data input device for obtaining digital images, a display for visualizing digital images to a user, and a control input device for receiving control information from the user, a processing unit configured to visualize through said display a number of digital images belonging to an image chain to a user, said image chain comprising multiple digital images and link information about a number of links between them, each image of the image chain being linked to at least one another image of the image chain and said number of images including a selected image determined by the device or chosen by the user, further configured to visualize the links between at least said selected image and other images belonging to the chain, and supplementary information relating to at least said selected image or a link having the selected image as one end point thereof, further configured to obtain control information from the user through said control input device, and configured to specify on the basis of the control information a second image to be selected subsequently.
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62. An apparatus comprising
means for obtaining a digital image captured via a camera, and means for visualizing the image means for receiving control information at least about a user-defined area on the visualized image, and means for specifying, on the basis of the user-defined area on the visualized image, a link area on the visualized image to be associated with at least one another image.
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