DIGITAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE WITH REMOTE VIEWING INTERFACE

• US 20120131465A1
• Filed: 11/18/2010
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Inventors: Telek, Michael J., Landry, Lawrence B., Parulski, Kenneth A.
• Application Number:
  US12/949,086
• Publication Number:
  US 20120131465A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/733
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/022 in absence of operation, e.g. no data being entered during a predetermined time
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/16 Digital picture frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00347 with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0086 Image transceiver H04N2201/0093 and H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0089 Image display device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3288 Storage of two or more complete document pages or image frames

Abstract

A method for remotely viewing digital images provided to a digital image display device, the digital image display device including an image memory for storing a plurality of digital images, a display screen, and a network interface for communicating with a network, the method comprising: providing a remote viewing interface for the digital image display device, the remote viewing interface being accessible over the network from a location remote from the digital image display device; displaying one of the plurality of stored digital images on the display screen; and simultaneously displaying, on the remote viewing interface, information indicating which of the plurality of stored digital images is currently displayed on the display screen.

Claims

1. A method for remotely viewing digital images provided to a digital image display device, the digital image display device including an image memory for storing a plurality of digital images, a display screen, and a network interface for communicating with a network, the method comprising:

providing a remote viewing interface for the digital image display device, the remote viewing interface being accessible over the network from a location remote from the digital image display device;

displaying one of the plurality of stored digital images on the display screen; and

simultaneously displaying, on the remote viewing interface, information indicating which of the plurality of stored digital images is currently displayed on the display screen.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the displayed digital image is a digital image that has been transferred to the digital image display device over the network using the network interface by an individual who is viewing the remote viewing interface.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the information indicating which of the plurality of stored digital images is currently displayed on the display screen is a representation of the currently displayed digital image.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the information indicating which of the plurality of stored digital images is currently displayed on the display screen is a metadata identifying the currently displayed digital image.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the digital image display device provides data identifying the currently displayed digital image to the remote viewing interface over the network using the network connection.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the selection of the digital image that is currently displayed on the display screen is controlled by a remote user interface that includes the remote viewing interface.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the digital image display device includes a plurality of user-selectable display modes, and wherein the display mode can be selected using the remote user interface.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the digital image display device includes a unique device identifier and wherein the remote user interface is associated with the digital image display device using the unique device identifier.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein a user is enabled to establish a user account associated with the digital image display device, and wherein the remote viewing interface is associated with the user account.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the digital image display device further includes a remote user interface adapted to remotely manage the image display device over the network, the remote viewing interface being a portion of a remote user interface.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the digital image display device includes a local user interface for controlling the digital image display device, and wherein the remote user interface enables a remote user to disable at least a portion of the local user interface.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the stored digital images include digital images that were transferred to the digital image display device over the network.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the transferred digital image were transferred from a content supplier'"'"'s computer, a digital image sharing website, or a social networking website.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein the transferred digital images were selected for transfer to the digital image display device by a remote user using a remote user interface that includes the remote viewing interface.

15. The method of claim 1 further including providing a means for audio communication between a viewer viewing the digital image display device and a remote viewer viewing the remote viewing interface.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein the network interface is a wireless network interface and the digital image display device is connected to the network by connecting to a wireless network connection point.

17. A method for remotely viewing digital images provided to a digital image display device, the digital image display device including an image memory for storing a plurality of digital images, a display screen, and a network interface for communicating with a network, the method comprising:

providing a remote viewing interface for the digital image display device, the remote viewing interface being accessible over the network from a location remote from the digital image display device;

displaying two or more of the stored digital images on the display screen in a collage format; and

simultaneously displaying, on the remote viewing interface, information indicating each of the stored digital images that is currently displayed on the display screen.