Viewfinder for shared image device

• US 8,350,946 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2010
• Issued: 01/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, Jr., John D., Jung, Edward K. Y., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Robert W.
• Primary Examiner(s): GILES, NICHOLAS G
• Application Number:
  US12/924,277
• Publication Number:
  US 20110069196A1
• Time in Patent Office: 839 Days
• Field of Search: 348/211.1, 348/211.3, 348/211.8, 348/211.11, 348/211.13, 348/218.1, 348/333.01, 348/333.05, 348/211.99, 348/211.2, 348/211.4, 348/211.9, 348/211.12, 348/211.14, 348/333.02, 348/333.09, 348/333.11, 348/333.12
• US Class Current: 348/333.02
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00137 Transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00161 Viewing or previewing
• 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 1/00448 horizontally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32133 on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence
• 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 23/634 Warning indications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/662 by using master/slave camera arrangements for affecting the control of camera image capture, e.g. placing the camera in a desirable condition to capture a desired image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/90 Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2621 Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects during image pickup, e.g. digital cameras, camcorders, video cameras having integrated special effects capability

Abstract

A technique includes receiving one or more captured shared image representations at a displaying shared image device from one or more shared image devices. At least one of the displaying shared image device and the one or more shared image devices configurable to capture one or more image representations. The technique further includes displaying a view-finder-based shared image representation over a viewfinder at the displaying shared image device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving information regarding a recognition of at least a portion of a subject being displayed in a viewfinder of an image capture device during a current portion of a session, the recognition of at least the portion of the subject being displayed in the viewfinder of the image capture device via at least in part a microprocessor;

determining information, via at least in part a microprocessor, as to how many images of at least a portion of the subject were captured during a portion of the session previous to the current portion of the session; and

generating instructions regarding displaying an indication in the viewfinder of the image capture device based at least upon the determining information as to how many images of at least a portion of the subject were captured during a portion of the session previous to the current portion of the session.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving information regarding a recognition of at least a portion of a subject being displayed in a viewfinder of an image capture device during a current portion of a session, the recognition of at least the portion of the subject being displayed in the viewfinder of the image capture device via at least in part a microprocessor comprises:

receiving information regarding a recognition of at least a portion of a subject being displayed in a viewfinder of an image capture device during a current portion of a session, the recognition of at least the portion of the subject being displayed in the viewfinder of the image capture device via at least in part an image recognition program executed by one or more microprocessors.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the receiving information regarding a recognition of at least a portion of a subject being displayed in a viewfinder of an image capture device during a current portion of a session, the recognition of at least the portion of the subject being displayed in the viewfinder of the image capture device via at least in part an image recognition program executed by one or more microprocessors comprises:

receiving information regarding a recognition of at least a portion of a subject being displayed in a viewfinder of an image capture device during a current portion of a session, the recognition of at least the portion of the subject being displayed in the viewfinder of the image capture device via at least in part an image recognition program executed by one or more microprocessors during the current portion of the session.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining information, via at least in part a microprocessor, as to how many images of at least a portion of the subject were captured during a portion of the session previous to the current portion of the session comprises:

determining information, via at least in part an image recognition program executed by one or more microprocessors, as to how many images of at least a portion of the subject were captured during a portion of the session previous to the current portion of the session.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the determining information, via at least in part an image recognition program executed by one or more microprocessors, as to how many images of at least a portion of the subject were captured during a portion of the session previous to the current portion of the session comprises:

determining information, via at least in part an image recognition program executed by one or more microprocessors during the current portion of the session, as to how many images of at least a portion of the subject were captured during a portion of the session previous to the current portion of the session.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining information, via at least in part a microprocessor, as to how many images of at least a portion of the subject were captured during a portion of the session previous to the current portion of the session comprises:

determining information, via at least in part one or more microprocessors, as to how many images of at least a portion of the subject captured during a portion of the session previous to the current portion of the session appear similar to the at least a portion of a subject being displayed in a viewfinder of an image capture device during a current portion of a session.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating instructions regarding displaying an indication in the viewfinder of the image capture device based at least upon the determining information as to how many images of at least a portion of the subject were captured during a portion of the session previous to the current portion of the session comprises:

generating instructions regarding displaying an indication in the viewfinder of the image capture device of a portion of a subject being displayed in the viewfinder during the current portion of the session of which fewer images were captured during a portion of the session previous to the current portion of the session than were captured of a different portion of a subject being displayed in the viewfinder during the current portion of the session, based at least upon the determining information as to how many images of at least a portion of the subject were captured during a portion of the session previous to the current portion of the session.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving information and determining information occur during the current portion of the session.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least a portion of a subject being displayed in a viewfinder during the current portion of the session is recognized in images captured during a portion of the session previous to the current portion of the session at least in part by an image recognition process executed by one or more microprocessors, the image recognition process operable during the current portion of the session.