METHOD FOR MANAGING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH, APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH, AND METHOD FOR PLAYING THE SAME

• US 20090132489A1
• Filed: 01/24/2008
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Transcend Information Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Transcend Information Incorporated
• Inventors: LI, Jian-Lin
• Application Number:
  US12/018,807
• Publication Number:
  US 20090132489A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A method for playing a digital photograph display apparatus is provided. The method includes connecting the digital photograph display apparatus to a storage area, wherein the storage area has a plurality of digital photographs. In this method, a metadata (for example, the information in an exchange image file—EXIF), of each digital photograph is captured to read the corresponding shooting date of the digital photograph. In addition, a current date information is generated. The corresponding shooting date of each digital photograph is compared with the current date information. A digital photograph is displayed when the shooting date of the digital photograph is related to the current date information.

Claims

1. A method for managing a digital photograph, comprising:

capturing a header information of the digital photograph;

determining whether the header information conforms to a predetermined condition; and

setting the digital photograph as a displaying digital photograph if the header information conforms to the predetermined condition.

2. The digital photograph management method according to claim 1, wherein the header information includes a metadata.

3. The digital photograph management method according to claim 2, wherein the metadata is in exchangeable image file (EXIF), International Press Telecommunication Council (IPTC) or Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) format.

4. The digital photograph management method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition is an initial shooting date related to a current date.

5. The digital photograph management method according to claim 1, wherein the digital photograph is in bitmap file format, Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG) format, or graphics interchange format (GIF).

6. A method for playing a digital photograph display apparatus, comprising:

connecting to a storage area, wherein the storage area has a plurality of digital photographs;

comparing a header information of each of the digital photographs with a predetermined condition; and

capturing a digital photograph having the header information conforming to the predetermined condition from the storage area to be displayed.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the header information includes a metadata.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the metadata is in EXIF, IPTC or XMP format.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of comparing the header information of each of the digital photographs with the predetermined condition comprises:

generating a current date information;

reading a corresponding shooting date from the metadata of each of the digital photographs;

comparing the corresponding shooting date of each of the digital photographs with the current date information;

determining that the currently compared digital photograph conforms to the predetermined condition if the shooting date of the currently compared digital photograph is related to the current date information; and

determining that the currently compared digital photograph does not conform to the predetermined condition if the shooting date of the currently compared digital photograph is not related to the current date information.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein the storage area is a storage apparatus.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the storage apparatus comprises a hard disk, a flash drive, and a memory card.

12. The method according to claim 6, wherein the storage area is a remote server.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the step of capturing the digital photograph from the storage area comprises capturing the digital photograph from the remote server through cable transmission or wireless transmission.

14. The method according to claim 6 further comprising:

setting a keyword;

searching whether the content of each of the digital photographs comprises the keyword; and

displaying the currently searched digital photograph if the content of the currently detected digital photograph comprises the keyword.

15. The method according to claim 6, wherein the digital photograph display apparatus comprises a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a pocket PC (PPC), a digital camera, and a digital frame.

16. A digital photograph display apparatus, comprising:

a storage unit, for storing a plurality of digital photographs;

a display unit, for displaying images;

a control unit, coupled to the storage unit and the display unit for capturing a header information of each of the digital photographs and displaying the digital photograph through the display unit, if the header information of the digital photograph conforms to a predetermined condition.

17. The digital photograph display apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the header information includes a metadata.

18. The digital photograph display apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the metadata is in EXIF, IPTC or XMP format.

19. The digital photograph display apparatus according to claim 16 further comprising a timing unit for generating a current date information.

20. The digital photograph display apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the control unit compares a corresponding shooting date of each of the digital photographs with the current date information and displays the digital photograph through the display unit if the shooting date of the digital photograph is related to the current date information.

21. The digital photograph display apparatus according to claim 16 further comprising a transmission interface unit for connecting the control unit to a remote server through a data transmission path, wherein the remote server stores a plurality of digital photographs, and the control unit downloads the digital photographs having the header information thereof conforming to the predetermined condition from the remote server and displays the digital photographs through the display unit.

22. The digital photograph display apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the data transmission path is a cable transmission path or a wireless transmission path.

23. The digital photograph display apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the data transmission path is connected to the remote server through the Internet.

24. The digital photograph display apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the remote server is a storage apparatus.

25. The digital photograph display apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the display unit is a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel.