DISPLAY DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING RELATED DIGITAL IMAGES

• US 20120249575A1
• Filed: 03/28/2011
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Inventors: Krolczyk, Marc, Gudell, Marc Nicolas, Marino, Frank
• Granted Patent: US 11,580,155 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• 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 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/16 Digital picture frames

Abstract

A digital image display device for displaying a sequence of digital media assets, the digital media assets including both individual digital still images and groups of related digital still images, comprising a display screen; a processor; and a processor-accessible program memory. The processor-accessible program memory stores executable instructions for causing the processor to execute the steps of: designating a sequence of digital media assets; and sequentially displaying each digital media asset in the sequence of digital media assets on the display screen, wherein if a displayed digital media asset is an individual digital still image it is displayed for a specified display time duration, and if a displayed digital media asset is a group of related digital still images the display time duration is subdivided and each of the digital still images in the group of related digital still images is displayed for a corresponding display time duration fraction.

Claims

1. A digital image display device for displaying a sequence of digital media assets, the digital media assets including both individual digital still images and groups of related digital still images, comprising:

a display screen;

a processor;

an image memory for storing the digital media assets; and

a processor-accessible program memory storing executable instructions for causing the processor to execute the steps of;

designating a sequence of stored digital media assets for display in a sequential display mode;

specifying a display time duration; and

sequentially displaying each digital media asset in the sequence of digital media assets on the display screen, wherein if a displayed digital media asset is an individual digital still image it is displayed for the specified display time duration, and if a displayed digital media asset is a group of related digital still images the display time duration is subdivided into display time duration fractions and each of the digital still images in the group of related digital still images is displayed for a corresponding display time duration fraction.

2. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein the display time duration is subdivided into equal display time interval fractions.

3. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein the digital still images in the group of related digital still images are displayed for a predefined minimum time duration if the corresponding display time duration fraction is less than the predefined minimum time duration.

4. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein the time duration is subdivided such that the display time duration fraction for the first digital still image in a particular group of related digital still images is longer than the display time duration fractions for at least some of the other digital still images in the particular group of related digital still images.

5. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein the display time duration is user selectable using user controls.

6. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein a transition effect is applied to transition between the display of the digital still images in the group of related digital still images.

7. The digital image display device of claim 2 wherein the transition effect is a cross-fade transition effect.

8. The digital image display device of claim 2 wherein a different transition effect is used to transition between each digital media asset in the sequence of digital media assets than is used to transition between the display of the digital still images in the group of related digital still images.

9. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein the sequence of digital media assets also includes one or more digital video images.

10. The digital image display device of claim 9 wherein each digital video image has an associated digital video time duration, and wherein each digital video image is displayed according to its associated digital video time duration.

11. The digital image display device of claim 10 wherein a first digital still image in a particular group of related digital still images is stored in an associated digital file, and wherein the remaining digital still images in the particular group of related digital still images are stored as metadata within the associated digital file.

12. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein the digital still images in a particular group of related digital still images are each stored in individual digital files, together with metadata indicating a linkage between the individual digital files.

13. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein a set of digital still images having associated capture times that fall within a predefined time interval of each other are automatically designated to be a group of related digital still images.

14. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein a particular group of related digital still images corresponds to a set of digital still images captured by a digital camera using a burst capture mode.

15. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein a particular group of related digital still images include digital still images of a particular object or person or scene captured at a series of different times.

16. The digital image display device of claim 15 wherein the particular group of related digital still images represent a time lapse photography series.

17. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein the digital still images within a particular group of related digital still images are displayed in an order according to associated image capture times.

18. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein the digital still images within a particular group of related digital still images are stored in digital image files named using a sequential file naming convention including an image sequence number, and wherein the digital still images within the particular group of related digital still images are displayed in an order according to the image sequence number.

19. The digital image display device of claim 1 wherein the digital still images within a particular group of related digital still images are displayed in an order according to metadata associated with the digital still images indicating a desired display order.

20. A method for displaying a sequence of digital media assets on a display screen, the digital media assets including both individual digital still images and groups of related digital still images, comprising:

specifying a display time duration; and

sequentially displaying each digital media asset in the sequence of digital media assets on the display screen, wherein if a displayed digital media asset is an individual digital still image it is displayed for the specified display time duration, and if a displayed digital media asset is a group of related digital still images the display time duration is subdivided into display time duration fractions and each of the digital still images in the group of related digital still images is displayed for a corresponding display time duration fraction