System and method for communicating images to a removable media device

• US 6,961,514 B1
• Filed: 12/27/1999
• Issued: 11/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Grandbois, Brett, Neuman, Darren
• Primary Examiner(s): Groody, James J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): ONUAKU, CHRISTOPHER O
• Application Number:
  US09/472,630
• Time in Patent Office: 2,136 Days
• Field of Search: 386/1, 386/46, 386/117, 386/121, 386124-126, 348/211.3, 348/211.2, 348/211.4, 348/211.5, 348/211.6, 348/211.99, 348/158, 348/231.99, 348/231.7, 348/14.08, 348/14, 348/211, 358/1.15, 358/426, 370/0, 709203-207
• US Class Current: 386/232
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00137 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00148 Storage information retrieval G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00172 directly from a still digital camera or from a storage medium mounted in a still digital camera H04N1/0018 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0055 By radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/33378 Type or format of data, e.g. colour or B/W, halftone or binary, computer image file or facsimile data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 for more than one processing mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

A system and method for communicating an image to a removable media device includes communicating the image from an image capture device to the removable media device over a wireless connection. The communicated image is stored in memory on the removable media device, and the stored image is deciphered. The deciphered image is recorded on removable media, the recorded image capable of being accessed on removable media device. In an additional aspect of the present invention, a method for communicating and formatting an image from an image capture device includes initiating a connection between an image capture device and an image storage device and querying the image storage device for a supported format. If the supported format differs from an image format, the image is deciphered to the supported format and communicated from the image capture device to the image storage device.

Claims

1. A method for communicating and formatting an image from an image capture device, comprising:

initiating a wireless connection between an image capture device and an image storage device;

querying the image storage device for a supported format; and

if the supported format differs from an image format, reformatting the image to the supported format without user intervention and communicating the image from the image capture device to the image storage device.

2. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the wireless connection includes at least one of an infrared and radio frequency connection.

3. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the image capture device includes at least one of a digital camera and digital camcorder and the image storage device includes a removable media device including at least one of a digital versatile disk (DVD), digital video disk-erasable (DVD-e), VCD, and compact disc.

4. The method as described in claim 1, wherein deciphering includes decoding the stored image from a first format into a photoframe and encoding the decoded image into a second format.

5. A system for communicating and formatting an image from an image capture device, comprising:

an image capture device for capturing the image; and

an image storage device for storing the image to removable media,

wherein the image capture device initiates a wireless connection between an image capture device and an image storage device;

queries the image storage device for a supported format;

deciphers the image to the supported format if the supported format differs from the image format, and communicates the image to the image storage device for storage to the removable media.

6. The system as described in claim 5, wherein the wireless connection includes at least one of a infrared and radio frequency connection.

7. The system as described in claim 5, wherein the image capture device includes at least one of a digital camera and digital camcorder and the image storage device includes a removable media device including at least one of a digital versatile disk (DVD), digital video disk-erasable (DVD-e), VCD, and compact disc.

8. The method as described in claim 5, wherein deciphering includes decoding the stored image from a first format into a photoframe and encoding the decoded image into a second format.