TAGGING METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PORTABLE TERMINAL

• US 20100260421A1
• Filed: 03/05/2010
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Hyun Mi, Kim, Dae Won, Kim, Yu Ran
• Granted Patent: US 8,782,052 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/180
• 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 tagging method and apparatus of a portable terminal is in which if particular content is edited, only second tag information corresponding to the edited content is extracted and then automatically tagged to the edited content. The second tag information is part of the first tag information corresponding to a photography subject contained in the particular content.

Claims

1. A tagging method for tagging content in a portable terminal, comprising:

selecting particular content;

extracting first tag information contained in the particular content;

selecting an area of the particular content and creating edited content;

extracting second tag information corresponding to the edited content, wherein the second tag information is part of the first tag information; and

automatically, tagging the edited content with the second tag information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the area of particular content selected is less than an entirety of the particular content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second tag information is a subset of the first tag information.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the edited content tagged with the second tag information.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

tagging the edited content with third tag information descriptive of the edited content.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the particular content comprises:

at least one of a still image and a moving image.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein creating the edited content comprises:

cutting off an area of the still image in a polygon shape.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein extracting first tag information comprises:

recognizing a feature information regarding a person or an object included in the particular content via operation of a photography subject recognition program; and

comparing the feature information regarding a stored photography subject with that of the recognized person or object, and extracting the first tag information.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein extracting second tag information comprises:

recognizing a feature information regarding a person or an object included in the edited content via operation of a photography subject recognition program; and

comparing the feature information regarding a stored photography subject with that of the recognized person or object, and extracting the second tag information.

10. A tagging apparatus of a portable terminal comprising:

a display unit for outputting a screen for editing particular content; and

a tag manager for extracting first tag information contained in the particular content, and for extracting second tag information corresponding to a edited content, if an area of the particular content is selected to create edited content, and for automatically tagging the edited content with the second tag information,

wherein the second tag information is a subset of the first tag information.

11. The tagging apparatus of claim 10, wherein the edit screen comprises:

a content display area for displaying the particular content; and

a tag information display area for outputting tag information regarding the content displayed on the content display area.

12. The tagging apparatus of claim 11, wherein the tag information display area comprises:

a tagging menu display area for tagging the edited content with third tag information.

13. The tagging apparatus of claim 10, wherein the particular content comprises:

at least one of a still image and a moving image.

14. The tagging apparatus of claim 13, further comprising:

a controller for cutting off the edited content in a predetermined polygonal shape when the particular content is the still image.

15. The tagging apparatus of claim 10, further comprising:

a storage unit for storing the edited content tagging with the second tag information.

16. The tagging apparatus of claim 15, wherein:

the storage unit comprises a machine redable medium and r stores executable software comprising a photography subject recognition program and feature information regarding a photography subject; and

the tag manager recognizes a photography subject, contained in the particular content and the edited content, using the photography subject recognition program, and extracts tag information.

17. The tagging apparatus of claim 12, wherein the third tag information is manually entered.

18. The tagging apparatus of claim 14, wherein the predetermined polygonal shape is substantially rectangular.