IMAGE ANNOTATION FOR IMAGE AUXILIARY INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

• US 20120047424A1
• Filed: 08/20/2010
• Published: 02/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qmage, Inc.
• Original Assignee: LMR Inventions, L.L.C. (Leigh M. Rothschild)
• Inventors: Rothschild, Leigh M.
• Granted Patent: US 9,547,667 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/230
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06028 using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/029 Insert-editing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/44 Decoders specially adapted therefor, e.g. video decoders which are asymmetric with respect to the encoder
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/46 Embedding additional information in the video signal during the compression process H04N19/517, H04N19/68, H04N19/70 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for image annotation for image auxiliary information storage and retrieval. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for image annotation for image auxiliary information storage and retrieval is provided. The method includes loading a digital image into memory of a computer and selecting separately stored auxiliary information for the digital image. A network location of the auxiliary information can be encoded. Finally, the encoding can be embedded into the digital image.

Claims

1. A method for image annotation for image auxiliary information storage and retrieval comprising:

loading a digital image into memory of a computer;

selecting separately stored auxiliary information for the digital image;

encoding a network location of the auxiliary information; and

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embedding the encoding into the digital image.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting auxiliary information for the digital image, comprises selecting a digital video for the digital image.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting auxiliary information for the digital image, comprises selecting digital audio for the digital image.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting auxiliary information for the digital image, comprises selecting text for the digital image.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein encoding a network location of the auxiliary information, comprises encoding a network location of the auxiliary information in a bar code.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein encoding a network location of the auxiliary information, comprises embedding the bar code into a corner of the digital image.

7. An image data processing system comprising:

a host computer with at least one processor and memory;

an image editing tool executing in the memory of the host computer; and

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an image annotation module coupled to the image editing tool, the module comprising program code enabled upon execution by the host computer to select auxiliary information for a digital image loaded in the image editing tool, to encode a network location of the auxiliary information, and to direct the image editing tool to embed the encoding into the digital image.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the auxiliary information is a digital video for the digital image.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the auxiliary information is digital audio for the digital image.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the auxiliary information is text for the digital image.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the encoding is a bar code.

12. A computer program product for image annotation for image auxiliary information storage and retrieval, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code for loading a digital image into memory of a computer;

computer readable program code selecting separately stored auxiliary information for the digital image;

computer readable program code encoding a network location of the auxiliary information; and

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computer readable program code embedding the encoding into the digital image.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the auxiliary information is a digital video for the digital image.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the auxiliary information is digital audio for the digital image.

15. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the auxiliary information is text for the digital image.

16. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the encoding is a bar code.