Embedding digital content within a digital photograph during capture of the digital photograph

• US 10,102,601 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2017
• Issued: 10/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pixmarx IP LLC (Endpoint IP LLC)
• Original Assignee: Pixmarx the Spot LLC
• Inventors: Crutchfield, Barry, Lipps, Gary
• Primary Examiner(s): Yang, Weiwen
• Application Number:
  US15/705,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20180068411A1
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0021 Image watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2201/0064 for copy protection or copy management, e.g. CGMS, copy only once, one-time copy
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2005/91335 the copy protection signal being a watermark
• 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 5/913 for scrambling ; for copy protection

Abstract

A wireless communication device comprises position determining system, a digital imaging system and a photograph customization system coupled to the position locating system and the digital imaging system. The position determining system is configured to provide information indicating a current position of the wireless communication device. The digital imaging system is configured to create digitally rendered images of visual content acquired thereby. The visual content is displayed on an image viewing structure of the digital imaging device while being acquired. The photograph customization system is configured to use the current location of the digital imaging device for providing one or more embeddable content images and to display information from at least one of the one or more embeddable content images on an image viewing structure of the digital imaging device while the visual content being acquired by the digital imaging system is being displayed on the image viewing structure.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method performed by a wireless communication device, comprising:

receiving a request to embed system-provided content into a photograph to be taken at a current location of the wireless communication device using a digital imaging device of the wireless communication device;

receiving one or more embeddable content images responsive to the receipt of the request to embed;

selecting one of the one or more of the one or more embeddable content images;

displaying the selected one or more embeddable content images on an image viewing structure of the wireless communication device;

displaying visual content captured in real-time by the digital imaging device on the image viewing structure in combination with the selected one or more embeddable content images, wherein displaying the selected one or more embeddable content images comprises maintaining the selected embeddable content image within an area of the image viewing structure independent of the visual content that is being captured in real-time by the digital imaging device such that the selected one or more embeddable content images remains displayed on the image viewing structure irrespective of the visual content being captured by the digital imaging device, and wherein the selected one or more embeddable content images are displayed as a mask over the visual content that is being captured in real-time by the digital imaging device; and

outputting from the wireless communication device a visual image data structure comprising a photograph, wherein the photograph comprises the selected one or more embeddable content images and portions of said captured real-time visual content that are visible on the image viewing structure through the mask.

2. A computer-implemented method performed by a wireless communication device, said wireless communication device including a digital imaging device and image viewing structure, said method comprising:

receiving a request to embed a system-provided embeddable content image with an image to be captured by said digital imaging device at a location of said wireless communication device;

receiving an embeddable content image responsive to said receiving a request to embed;

displaying in an area of said image viewing structure said embeddable content image;

maintaining said embeddable content image in a static position in said area of said image viewing structure; and

displaying in combination in said image viewing structure a combined visual image comprising;

a captured image provided from said digital imaging device in real time at the location;

said embeddable content image displayed as a mask over said captured image.

3. The computer implemented of claim 2, further comprising:

in said displaying, selectively positioning said captured image relative to said embeddable content image.

4. The computer implemented of claim 3, further comprising:

in said displaying, said captured image selectively positioned relative to said embeddable content image by said digital imaging device framing said captured image when said captured image is taken.

5. The computer implemented of claim 2, further comprising:

in said displaying, said embeddable content image maintained in said static position without reference to visual content of said captured image.

6. The computer implemented of claim 2, further comprising:

generating a digital file comprising said combined visual image.

7. The computer implemented of claim 6, further comprising:

said combined visual image comprising said embeddable content image and a portion of said captured image visible in the image viewing structure through the mask.

8. The computer implemented of claim 2, further comprising:

selecting the embeddable content image from a plurality of embeddable content images received responsive to said receiving a request to embed.

9. A computer-implemented method performed by a wireless communication device having a digital imaging device and image viewing structure, said method comprising:

displaying in combination in said image viewing structure a combined visual image comprising;

a captured image provided from said digital imaging device in real time at a location of taking a photograph;

an embeddable content image provided by said wireless communication device, said embeddable content image displayed as a mask over said captured image, said embeddable content image maintained in a static position in said image viewing structure during the taking of the photograph;

and

generating a digital file comprising said combined visual image including said embeddable content image maintained in the static position in said image viewing structure in combination with said captured image as displayed in said image viewing structure during taking of the photograph.

10. A computer-implemented method performed by a wireless communication device, having a digital imaging device and image viewing structure, said method comprising:

receiving, by said wireless communication device, an embeddable content image;

maintaining said embeddable content image in a static position in said image viewing structure when taking a captured image by the digital imaging device;

displaying in combination in said image viewing structure a combined visual image comprising;

said embeddable content image in said static position displayed as a mask over said captured image;

said captured image provided from said digital imaging device in real time when taken by the digital imaging device, the captured image selectively positioned relative to said embeddable content image;

and

generating a digital file comprising said combined visual image comprising in combination said embeddable content image in said static position in said image viewing structure displayed as a mask over said captured image, as displayed in said image viewing structure during taking of said captured image by the digital imaging device.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

in said displaying, said embeddable content image maintained in said static position in said image viewing structure without reference to visual content of said captured image.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

said embeddable content image provided by said wireless communication device in relation to a location of said wireless communication device where the captured image is to be taken by said digital imaging device.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

said embeddable content image received by said wireless communication device in relation to the location of said wireless communication device when the captured image is taken by said digital imaging device.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

said embedded content image selected from a plurality of embedded content images provided by said wireless communication device.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

said embeddable content image selected from a plurality of embeddable content images received by said wireless communication device in relation to the location of said wireless communication device when taking the captured image.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

the embeddable content image displayed as a mask over said captured image filtering a portion of said captured image visible in said combined visual image.