Downloading and synchronizing media metadata

• US 8,549,437 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2010
• Issued: 10/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Neubrand, Hans-Werner, Subramaniam, Baskaran
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): NABI, REZA U
• Application Number:
  US12/794,689
• Publication Number:
  US 20110055765A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,215 Days
• Field of Search: 715/838
• US Class Current: 715/838
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/002 Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing; transfer of record carriers from magazine G11B15/68, G11B17/10; G11B17/22
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• 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 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3215 of a time or duration
• 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 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display

Abstract

For a first device, some embodiments provide an application for displaying several media content stored on a second device communicably connected to the first device. The application includes a graphical user interface (“GUI”). The GUI includes a media content display area for displaying the media content stored on the second device. The GUI includes a selectable item for activating a synchronization feature that automatically modifies a clock of the second device to match a clock of the first device.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an application for execution on a first device, the application for displaying a plurality of media content stored on a second device communicably connected to said first device, the application comprising a graphical user interface (“

GUI”

), the GUI comprising;

a media content display area for displaying the media content stored on the second device along with temporal metadata indicating a time at which media content was captured; and

a control area displaying i) a current time according to the first device ii) an internal time of the second device iii) a temporal discrepancy between the first device and second device;

the control area further includes;

a selectable item for activating a synchronization feature that automatically modifies a clock of the second device to match a clock of the first device and that modifies the temporal metadata of the media content on the second device by determining that a first temporal metadata value associated with a first image file has a time earlier than the internal time of the second device;

identifying a temporal offset based on the temporal discrepancy; and

modifying the temporal metadata when the sum of the temporal offset and the first temporal metadata does not exceed the current time of the first device clock.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the temporal metadata comprises timestamps.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the synchronization feature further modifies the displayed timestamps in accordance with the modification to the clock of the second device.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 3, wherein the modification to the clock of the second device and the modification to the timestamps each comprise an equal amount of time.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the GUI further comprises a display area for displaying a plurality of selectable items that represent a plurality of devices including the second device.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 5, wherein the second device is directly connected to the first device and the plurality of selectable devices includes a third device that is connected to a network to which the first device is connected.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the media content is not transferred to the first device.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the media content comprises location metadata.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the media content comprises thumbnails of image files.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the GUI further comprises a controls display area for displaying the selectable item for activating the synchronization feature.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the controls display area is further for displaying a time of the clock of the second device.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program which when executed by at least one processor of a first device synchronizes a second device with the first device, the computer program comprising sets of instructions for:

receiving a user selection of a selectable item representing the second device;

displaying metadata retrieved from the second device, the metadata comprising temporal data indicating times at which image files stored on the second device were captured by the second device according to a clock of the second device;

displaying a control area with a current time according to the first device, an internal time of the second device, a temporal discrepancy between the first device and second device, and a synchronization tool;

receiving a user selection of a synchronization tool;

determining that a first temporal metadata value associated with a first image file has a time earlier than the internal time of the second device, identifying a temporal offset based on the temporal discrepancy;

identifying a temporal offset based on the temporal discrepancy;

modifying the clock of the second device to resolve a temporal discrepancy between the second device clock and a first device clock when the sum of the temporal offset and the first temporal metadata does not exceed the current time of the first device clock;

modifying the retrieved temporal metadata in accordance with the modification to the second device clock; and

causing the second device to modify the temporal data of one or more of the image files on the second device based on the temporal discrepancy.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the modification to the temporal metadata modifies the retrieved metadata.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the computer program further comprises a set of instructions for displaying a time and date of the clock of the second device.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the set of instructions for modifying the clock comprises a call to an application programming interface of an operating system of the first device.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the first device is a computer and the second device is a digital camera.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12, wherein the set of instructions for modifying the temporal metadata comprises sets of instructions for:

identifying whether a first temporal metadata of a first image file has a time earlier than a time of the second device clock prior to the modification of the second device clock; and

only when the first temporal metadata has a time earlier than the time of the second device clock, modifying the temporal metadata.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the first temporal metadata is not modified when the time of the first temporal metadata is not earlier than the time of the second device clock.