Image display system related-information-access tabs

• US 9,513,773 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2014
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: McIntyre, Dale F., Gobeyn, Kevin M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Ting
• Application Number:
  US14/154,634
• Publication Number:
  US 20140129983A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,057 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]

Abstract

A data processing device for providing access to information related to a digital image record includes a display for presenting the digital image record. A user interface system receives an indication of user interaction with the displayed digital image record. A data processing system responsive to the received indication presents tab on the display. The tab displays or emanates near or from an edge of the displayed digital image record or from an edge of a displayed digital image record container including the digital image record. The tab includes an access point configured to allow a user to access a category of information related to content contained within the digital image record, and the tab is labeled according to the category of information for user access.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a display configured to display a digital image;

a user interface system configured to receive an indication of user interaction with the displayed digital image; and

a data processor configured to present a menu associated with the displayed digital image in response to the received indication, wherein the menu emanates from the displayed digital image, wherein the menu comprises an access point configured to allow a user to access a category of information related to content contained within the digital image, wherein the category of information includes information about a similar location to a location of a scene depicted in the displayed digital image, and wherein the menu is labeled according to the category of information,

wherein the data processor is configured to present a plurality of menus emanating from the displayed digital image, wherein each of the plurality of menus corresponds to a different category of information, wherein at least one of the plurality of menus corresponds to a category of information that includes information about other images from a same time frame as the displayed digital image, and

wherein the plurality of menus presented have a dynamic arrangement and appearance such that different menus are presented depending on determining an indication of user focus of one or more objects in the displayed digital image based on the user interaction.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is a handheld device and the user interaction is a touch screen actuation or an audible command.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the handheld device includes a personal digital assistant, a smartphone, a digital camera, or a cellular phone.

4. The device of claim 2, wherein the handheld device includes a cellular device.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the menu emanates from an edge of the displayed digital image.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the menu does not obstruct an image view of the displayed digital image.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of menus corresponds to a category of information that includes shopping information relating to the content contained within the displayed digital image.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of menus corresponds to a category of information that includes event information relating to the content contained within the displayed digital image.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of menus corresponds to a category of information that includes personal information relating to the content contained within the displayed digital image.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of menus corresponds to a category of information that includes information about other images from a same vacation as the displayed digital image.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the user interaction includes a mouse hover.

12. The device of claim 1, wherein the user-interaction includes a mouse click, a physical touch of a touch-screen display, a point using a motion sensor, a remote control device, a voice command, a mouse-button click, or a keyboard key press.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein the similar locations comprise at least one of fishing sites, camps, lakeshore resorts, or tournament sites.

14. A method comprising:

receiving, at a processing system, an indication of user interaction with a displayed digital image;

in response to the received indication, presenting, by the processing system, a menu associated with the displayed digital image, wherein the menu emanates from the displayed digital image, wherein the menu comprises an access point configured to allow a user to access a category of information related to content contained within the digital image, wherein the category of information includes information about a similar location to a location of a scene depicted in the displayed digital image, and wherein the menu is labeled according to the category of information; and

presenting a plurality of menus emanating from the displayed digital image, wherein each of the plurality of menus corresponds to a different category of information, wherein at least one of the plurality of menus corresponds to a category of information that includes information about other images from a same time frame as the displayed digital image, wherein the plurality of menus presented have a dynamic arrangement and appearance such that different menus are presented depending on determining an indication of user focus of one or more objects in the displayed digital image based on the user interaction.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the menu emanates from an edge of the displayed digital image.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the menu does not obstruct an image view of the displayed digital image.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions comprising:

instructions for receiving an indication of user interaction with a displayed digital image;

instructions for presenting, in response to the received indication, a menu associated with the displayed digital image, wherein the menu emanates from the displayed digital image, wherein the menu comprises an access point configured to allow a user to access a category of information related to content contained within the digital image, wherein the category of information includes information about a similar location to a location of a scene depicted in the displayed digital image, and wherein the menu is labeled according to the category of information; and

instructions for presenting a plurality of menus emanating from the displayed digital image, wherein each of the plurality of menus corresponds to a different category of information, wherein at least one of the plurality of menus corresponds to a category of information that includes information about other images from a same time frame as the displayed digital image, wherein the plurality of menus presented have a dynamic arrangement and appearance such that different menus are presented depending on determining an indication of user focus of one or more objects in the displayed digital image based on the user interaction.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the menu emanates from an edge of the displayed digital image such that the menu does not obstruct an image view of the displayed digital image.