Index print with a digital recording medium containing still images, motion sequences, and sound sequences

• US 5,706,097 A
• Filed: 09/13/1996
• Issued: 01/06/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Wrobel, Joseph J., Fredlund, John Randall, Schelling, Anna
• Primary Examiner(s): FRAHM, ERIC S
• Application Number:
  US08/713,306
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 358/296, 358/302, 358/335, 358/401, 358/403, 358/909.1, 355/40, 355/54, 355/77, 235/462
• US Class Current: 358/296
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2227/005 Matrix print; Index print
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 31/06 in which sound track is associated with successively-shown still pictures
• CPC Class Codes: G03D 15/001 Counting; Classifying; Marking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00461 marking or otherwise tagging one or more displayed image, e.g. for selective reproduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32112 in a separate computer file, document page or paper sheet, e.g. a fax cover sheet H04N1/32122 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3875 combined with enlarging or reducing enlarging or reducing per se H04N1/393
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3264 of sound signals

Abstract

In combination with a digital recording medium having recorded thereon individually addressable digital data files containing still images, motion sequences and sound sequences, an index print, having a plurality of index images representing the still images, motion sequences and sound sequences on the digital recording medium, the index images including a subject matter descriptor, an index code usable for addressing the individual digital data files, and a type indicator for indicating the type of subject matter contained in the data file.

Claims

1. In combination with a digital recording medium having recorded thereon individually addressable digital data files containing still images, motion sequences and/or sound sequences, an index print, comprising:

a visual image bearing medium having a plurality of index images representing the subject matter of the data file on the digital recording medium, the index images including a subject matter descriptor, an index code usable for addressing the individual digital data files and a type indicator for indicating the type of subject matter contained in the digital data file.

2. The index print claimed in claim 1, wherein the subject matter descriptor is a title identifying the subject matter of the data file.

3. The index print claimed in claim 2, wherein the title includes a time or date.

4. The index print claimed in claim 1, wherein the subject matter descriptor is a thumbnail image representing an image from the data file.

5. The index print claimed in claim 1, wherein the subject matter descriptor is a title and a thumbnail image representing an image from the data file.

6. The index print claimed in claim 1, wherein the type indicator is an icon.

7. The index print claimed in claim 1, wherein the type indicator is an alphanumeric character.

8. The index print claimed in claim 1, wherein a plurality of index images are employed to indicate a motion sequence and the type indicator includes an indication of the relative location of the index image in the motion sequence.

9. An information system, comprising:

a. a digital recording medium having recorded thereon individually addressable digital data files containing still images, motion sequences and sound sequences; and

b. an index print having a plurality of index images representing the still images, motion sequences and sound sequences on the digital recording medium, the index images including a subject matter descriptor, an index code usable for addressing the individual digital data files, and a type indicator for indicating the type of subject matter contained in the digital data file.