APPARATUS AND METHOD OF EMBEDDING META-DATA IN A CAPTURED IMAGE
First Claim
1. An apparatus to generate and render data embedded with associated meta-data in a human or machine recognizable format, comprising;
- an obtaining device to acquire first data in a predetermined format and associated second data comprising information of the first data, and to output the first data and the associated second data;
a processing device to receive the first data and the associated second data from the obtaining device, to process the first data and the associated second data to thereby generate meta-data based on the first data and/or the associated second data, to convert the meta-data into the predetermined format of the first data, and to embed the converted meta-data into the first data as a combined data in the predetermined format; and
a rendering device to receive the combined data from the processing device, and to render the combined data in the human or machine recognizable format.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses generate and render data embedded with associated meta-data in a human or machine recognizable format. The apparatus includes an obtaining device to acquire first data in a predetermined format and associated second data comprising information of the first data, and to output the first data and the associated second data; a processing device to receive the first data and the associated second data from the obtaining device, to process the first data and the associated second data to thereby generate meta-data based on the first data and/or the associated second data, to convert the meta-data into the predetermined format of the first data, and to embed the converted meta-data into the first data as a combined data in the predetermined format; and a rendering device to receive the combined data from the processing device, and to render the combined data in the human or machine recognizable format.
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus to generate and render data embedded with associated meta-data in a human or machine recognizable format, comprising;
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an obtaining device to acquire first data in a predetermined format and associated second data comprising information of the first data, and to output the first data and the associated second data; a processing device to receive the first data and the associated second data from the obtaining device, to process the first data and the associated second data to thereby generate meta-data based on the first data and/or the associated second data, to convert the meta-data into the predetermined format of the first data, and to embed the converted meta-data into the first data as a combined data in the predetermined format; and a rendering device to receive the combined data from the processing device, and to render the combined data in the human or machine recognizable format. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An apparatus to generate and render an image embedded with associated meta-data, comprising;
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a data acquisition driver to acquire an image, and associated data comprising information of the image; a data processor to process the acquired image and the associated data from the data acquisition driver in order to generate meta-data based on the image, the associated data, or both, to convert the meta-data into a same format as that of the image, and to embed the converted meta-data into the image; and a rendering driver to receive the image embedded with the converted meta-data from the data processor, and to render the image with the embedded converted meta-data as an output image. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of generating and rendering data embedded with associated meta-data in a human or machine recognizable format, comprising
obtaining first data in a predetermined format, and second data that is associated with the first data; -
processing the obtained first data and the associated second data to generate meta-data based on the first data, and/or the associated second data, converting the meta-data into the predetermined format of the first data; embedding the converted meta-data into the first data to obtain a combined data; and rendering the combined data in the predetermined format of the first data, the predetermined format of the first data being the human or machine recognizable format. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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20. A method of embedding meta-data in an image to be rendered together, comprising:
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obtaining the image; obtaining associated data contemporaneously with the image, the associate data being additional information of the image and includes a user input data, environmental data, and/or collected data that is associated with the image; extracting meta-data from the image that characterizes the image according to user selection as an extracted meta-data; generating a consolidated meta-data by consolidating the associated data and the extracted meta-data; generating a meta-data sub-image, which is a visual representation of the consolidated meta-data, by converting the consolidated meta-data into the same format as the image; embedding the meta-data sub-image into the image to generate a combined image in the same format as the image; and visually rendering the combined image on a medium or a display device.
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