ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110196902A1
• Filed: 12/28/2010
• Published: 08/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: KANG, CHI-CHENG
• Application Number:
  US12/979,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20110196902A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/822
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

An image processing method using an electronic device configures additional information into an image file. The electronic device acquires the image file stored in a storage unit and adds the additional information into at least one image layer of the image file. A user can determine whether both the additional information of the image file and the image file are displayed in a display unit at the same time.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a storage unit;

a display unit;

a processor;

one or more programs that are stored in the storage unit and are executed by the processor, the one or more programs comprising;

an acquiring module operable to acquire an image file stored in the storage unit;

a processing module operable to add at least one application into an extension section of the image file and at least one image layer into the at least one application; and

a presentation module operable to present the image file with additional information of the image file.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the additional information of the image file is text or icons.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one layer reserves the additional information added into the image file by the processing module in accordance with a protocol corresponding to the image file.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the acquiring module and the processing module are controlled by the processor.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processing module further adds audio information as the additional information into the at least one image layer.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the image file is JPEG, TIFF, or RAW data.

7. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the protocol is an image browsing protocol.

8. An image processing method using an electronic device, the electronic device comprising a storage unit, comprising:

acquiring an image file stored in the storage unit of the electronic device;

adding at least one application into an extension section of the image file and at least one image layer into the at least one application;

adding additional information of the image file into the at least one image layer; and

storing the additional information of the image file into the at least one image layer.

9. The image processing method of claim 8, further comprising:

presenting the image file with the additional information of the image file.

10. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the additional information of the image file is text or icons.

11. The image processing method of claim 8, wherein the step of adding additional information of the image file further comprises:

adding audio information as the additional information of the image file into the at least one image layer.

12. The image processing method of claim 8, wherein the image file is JPEG, TIFF, or RAW Data.

13. A storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform an image processing method using an electronic device, the electronic device comprising a storage unit, the method comprising:

acquiring an image file stored in the storage unit of the electronic device;

adding at least one application into an extension section of the image file and at least one image layer into the at least one application;

adding additional information of the image file into the at least one image layer; and

storing the additional information of the image file into the at least one image layer

14. The storage medium of claim 13, the method further comprising:

presenting the image file with the additional information of the image file.

15. The storage medium of claim 13, wherein the additional information of the image file is text or icons.

16. The storage medium of claim 13, wherein the step of adding additional information of the image file further comprises:

adding audio information as the additional information of the image file into the at least one image layer.

17. The storage medium of claim 13, wherein the image file is JPEG, TIFF, or RAW Data.