METHOD OF OPTIMIZING THE DISPLAYING OF IMAGE MEDIA ON A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE

• US 20080244469A1
• Filed: 03/30/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Research In Motion Limited (Blackberry Limited)
• Inventors: FAHMY, Samer, TURCOTTE, Andrew James
• Application Number:
  US11/693,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20080244469A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/864
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• 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 1/00442 Simultaneous viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. using a mosaic display arrangement of thumbnails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3216 of a job size, e.g. a number of images, pages or copies, size of file, length of message
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/325 Modified version of the image, e.g. part of the image, image reduced in size or resolution, thumbnail or screennail
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display

Abstract

A method of displaying image media on a display of a wireless communications device entails displaying a hybrid view of the image media by presenting a list of folders containing image media and by concurrently presenting thumbnail images of the image media corresponding to at least one of the folders. The thumbnail images can be scaled-down images of digital pictures or scaled-down frames of digital video. Optionally, when the user selects one of the thumbnail images, the display presents the file name and file size.

Claims

1. A method of displaying image media on a display of a wireless communications device, the method comprising a step of displaying a hybrid view of the image media by presenting a list of folders containing image media and by concurrently presenting thumbnail images of the image media corresponding to at least one of the folders.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the step of displaying the hybrid view of the image media comprises displaying folders and thumbnail images of digital pictures contained within one of the folders selected by the user.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the step of displaying the hybrid view of the image media comprises displaying folders and thumbnail images of frames of digital video contained within one of the folders selected by the user.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a step of enabling the user to select one of the thumbnail images to further display a file name and file size.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising steps of displaying one or more sources of the image media and grouping hierarchically the folders containing the image media under each of the one or more sources.

6. A computer program product comprising code adapted to perform the steps of claim 1 when the computer program product is loaded into memory and executed on a processor of a wireless communications device.

7. The computer program product comprising code adapted to perform the steps of claim 2 when the computer program product is loaded into memory and executed on a processor of a wireless communications device.

8. The computer program product comprising code adapted to perform the steps of claim 3 when the computer program product is loaded into memory and executed on a processor of a wireless communications device.

9. The computer program product comprising code adapted to perform the steps of claim 4 when the computer program product is loaded into memory and executed on a processor of a wireless communications device.

10. The computer program product comprising code adapted to perform the steps of claim 5 when the computer program product is loaded into memory and executed on a processor of a wireless communications device.

11. A wireless communications device comprising:

an input device for enabling a user to select image media;

a processor and memory for generating a hybrid view of the image media having both a list of folders containing the image media and thumbnail images of the image media; and

a display for displaying the hybrid view of the image media by presenting the list of the folders containing the image media and by concurrently presenting thumbnail images of the image media corresponding to at least one of the folders.

12. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 11 wherein the hybrid view of the image media comprises thumbnail images of digital pictures contained within one of the folders selected by the user.

13. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 11 wherein the hybrid view of the image media comprises thumbnail images of frames of digital video contained within one of the folders selected by the user.

14. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 11 wherein the display presents one or more sources of the image media and wherein the folders are grouped hierarchically under each of the one or more sources.

15. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 11 wherein the display further presents a file name and file size of an image that is selected by the user.

16. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 11 further comprising a non-touch input means for use in navigating the hybrid view.

17. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 16 wherein said non-touch input means is a trackball/thumbwheel.

18. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 17 wherein said non-touch input means is user-selectable and depressible whereby the user can select an image by depressing the non-touch input means.

19. The wireless communications device as claimed in claim 11 wherein the hybrid view comprises a footer that presents a file name and file size of an image last selected by the user.