Automated feature-based to do list

• US 20100077292A1
• Filed: 09/25/2008
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Harris Technology LLC
• Original Assignee: Harris Technology LLC
• Inventors: Harris, Scott C.
• Application Number:
  US12/238,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20100077292A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/232
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/587 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2112 using still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3215 of a time or duration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3264 of sound signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3266 of text or character information, e.g. text accompanying an image H04N2201/3226 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

A picture is used as a to do list. The picture is obtained either as a still image, or as a frame of the video. Once obtained, the picture can be annotated in various ways to indicate information about the image that made it interesting to the user. Various information about the image is also stored.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a storage part that stores an image;

an annotating part, that allows annotating the image to include information that is associated with the image; and

an image retrieval part which allows retrieving the image along with said information associated with the image at a time subsequent to a time of storing the image and annotating the image.

2. A device as in claim 1, wherein said device is a communicator which includes a communication capability.

3. A device as in claim 2, wherein said device further includes a camera that allows obtaining said image.

4. A device as in claim 1, wherein said device obtains said image over a network.

5. The device as in claim 1, wherein said image is a frame of a video, and said information about the image is information related to some aspect of the video.

6. A device as in claim 3, further comprising an automatic position detecting device, and said annotating part automatically determines information about a location of the position detecting part and annotates the image with said location.

7. The device as in claim 1 wherein said device provides a display screen which includes both said image, and a number of options for adding information about said image.

8. A device, comprising:

a computer running a user interface, said user interface allowing storing and displaying an image, and storing and displaying a plurality of different items of information associated with said image, wherein said plurality of different information includes at least multiple different items of information, and said computer displays said image as a background image, and displays said plurality of items of information as partly transparent objects over said background image,

wherein selecting said partly transparent objects causes said object that is selected to become less transparent.

9. The device as in claim 8, wherein said objects, when selected, become substantially completely opaque so that said background image can be seen through said objects before selected, and said background image cannot be seen through said objects after said objects are selected.

10. The device as in claim 8, wherein said objects, when selected, increase in size, and show a first amount of information when unselected, and show more than said first amount of information on said increased size after being selected.

11. A device as in claim 8, wherein each of a plurality of objects includes different information about the image.

12. A device as in claim 11, wherein one of said objects includes information indicating a reason that a user obtained the image.

13. The device as in claim 11, wherein one of said objects includes information about a location where the image was obtained, said information being automatically obtained and associated with said image.

14. The device as in claim 12, wherein said object provides information that causes navigating to said location.

15. A method, comprising:

obtaining an image over a network connection;

automatically annotating said image, using a plurality of different annotations;

storing said image; and

later retrieving said image along with said annotations and displaying said image along with said annotations.

16. A method as in claim 15, wherein said storing said image comprises storing said image on a remote server.

17. A method as in claim 15, wherein said annotations are selected from a plurality of pulldown menus that define a number of different alternatives for annotating said image.

18. A method as in claim 15, wherein said image is a still image.

19. A method as in claim 15, wherein said image is a frame of a video.

20. A method as in claim 15, wherein said displaying comprises displaying said image and a plurality of different items of information as said annotations associated with said image, wherein said plurality of different information includes at least multiple different items of information,

said displaying comprising displaying said image as a background image, and displaying said plurality of items of information as partly transparent objects over said background image,

wherein selecting said partly transparent objects causes said object that is selected to become less transparent.

21. The device as in claim 20, wherein said objects, when selected, become substantially completely opaque so that said background image can be seen through said objects before selected, and said background image cannot be seen through said objects after said objects are selected.

22. The device as in claim 20, wherein said objects, when selected, increase in size, and show a first amount of information when unselected, and show more than said first amount of information on said increased size after being selected.

23. A method, comprising

responsive to an action taken during a playing of a video, receiving information indicative of a frame of the video;

annotating said frame of the video; and

at a time after said receiving, displaying said frame and said annotation.

24. A method as in claim 23, wherein said annotation comprises clothes within the video.

25. A method as in claim 23, wherein said annotation comprises other video programs like the video.