METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ACQUISITION, ORGANIZATION, MANIPULATION, AND PUBLICATION
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Abstract
To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an integrated system for the acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication of digital images by amateur digital photography enthusiasts. The system of the present invention first acquires images from a number of different image sources. Images acquired in the same image importing session are marked as coming from the same conceptual film roll. Next, a user is empowered to organize and manipulate the acquired images. The images may be organized by tagging the images with informative keywords and grouping images together into conceptual photo albums. Furthermore, the images may be manipulated by rotating, cropping, and removing red-eye. Finally, the system of the present invention provides simple intuitive image publish systems. A selected group of images may be published in a photobook, published onto the World Wide Web, or published as individual image prints with minimal computer knowledge on the part of the user.
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35 Claims
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11. A method of processing digital images on a device, the method comprising:
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a) using an application program executing on the device to organize different sets of images into a plurality of different collections, wherein at least one collection has a plurality of images; and
b) using the application program to edit a plurality of images. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A computer readable medium storing a computer program for processing digital images, wherein the computer program comprises sets of instructions for:
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a) organizing images into a plurality of different collections, wherein at least one collection has a plurality of images; and
b) editing the images.
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25. A graphical user interface (“
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a) a first display area for displaying a plurality of images;
b) at least one organization tool for organizing different sets of images into different collections of images, wherein at least one collection has more than one image;
c) a second display area for displaying each particular collection of images as a user selectable item in the GUI; and
d) at least one editing tool for editing a particular image selected from said plurality of images, wherein the first and second display areas, and the organization and editing tools are all part of the GUI. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A method of processing digital images on a device, said method comprising:
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a) providing an editing tool for editing images;
b) providing at least one organization tool for organizing images into different collections of images, at least one collection comprising at least two images;
c) providing a slide show tool for initiating a slide show comprising at least two images, wherein said editing, organization, and slide show tools are part of a single application program running on the device. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33)
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34. A method of processing digital images on a first device, the method comprising;
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a) automatically detecting a second device connected to the first device;
b) importing images stored in the second device to the first device;
c) providing an editing tool for editing a particular image imported into the first device;
d) providing an organizing tool for organizing images imported into the first device into different collections of images, wherein the detecting, importing, and providing said tools are performed by an application program running on the first device.
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35. The method of claim 35, wherein the second device is a digital camera, wherein the detecting comprises identifying the type of digital camera connected to the first device.
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