Interface for media publishing

• US 20050076058A1
• Filed: 02/20/2004
• Published: 04/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Pictures Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Schwesig, Carsten, Poisson, John, Sciammarella, Eduardo, Hiraki, Norikazu, Imaizumi, Ryoichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,177,872 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2408 Monitoring of the upstream path of the transmission network, e.g. client requests monitoring data switching networks utilization H04L43/0876; scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43637 involving a wireless protocol, e.g. Bluetooth, RF or wireless LAN [IEEE 802.11] arrangements for wireless networking or broadcasting of information in indoor or near-field type systems H04B10/114
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/437 Interfacing the upstream path of the transmission network, e.g. for transmitting client requests to a VOD server flow control in data networks H04L47/10; streaming protocols, e.g. RTP or RTCP, H04L65/65; scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests in data packet switching networks H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44 Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6181 involving transmission via a mobile phone network arrangements for providing broadcast or conference services to substation in data switching networks in combination with wireless systems H04L12/189; wireless uplink channel access H04W74/004
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for implementing an interface for media publishing. In one implementation, a method of publishing media data includes: accessing a media interface of a media device; capturing media data using a media capture component of said media device; storing said captured media data in a media file in storage of said media device; modifying said captured media data; and publishing said modified media data to a network server; wherein said capturing, modifying, and publishing are performed using said media interface.

Claims

1. A method of publishing media data, comprising:

accessing a media interface of a media device;

capturing media data using a media capture component of said media device;

storing said captured media data in a media file in storage of said media device;

modifying said captured media data; and

publishing said modified media data to a network server;

wherein said capturing, modifying, and publishing are performed using said media interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

said capturing, modifying, and publishing are performed using an instant publish command of said media interface.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein:

said instant publish command is accessed through a single operation of said media device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein:

said single operation is pushing one button on said mobile device.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein:

said instant publish command is accessed through a remote operation of said media device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

said modifying includes editing said captured media data using one or more editing commands within said media interface.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein:

said editing includes changing an image represented by said media data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein:

said modifying includes adding metadata to said captured media data.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein:

said metadata includes user metadata defined by a user of said media device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein:

said user metadata includes author information.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein:

said metadata includes automatic metadata generated by said mobile device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein:

said automatic metadata is generated when said media data is captured.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein:

said automatic metadata includes biometric information for the user of said mobile device.

14. A media device, comprising:

a control component;

a media capture component connected to said control component;

a media interface connected to said control component;

storage connected to said control component and to said media capture component; and

a network interface connected to said control component and to said storage;

wherein said media interface provides one or more media configuration commands to set one or more configuration settings, a capture media command to capture media using said capture media component, one or more editing commands to edit captured media data, and a publish command to publish media data through said network interface.

15. The media device of claim 14, wherein:

said media interface also provides an instant publish command.

16. The media device of claim 15, further comprising:

an instant publish input to activate said instant publish command.

17. The media device of claim 16, wherein:

said instant publish input is a push button.

18. The media device of claim 15, wherein:

said instant publish command causes said media device to capture media data, modify said captured media data, and publish said modified media data.

19. The media device of claim 18, wherein:

said instant publish command causes said mobile device to modify said captured media device according to configuration settings set through said media interface.

20. The media device of claim 14, further comprising:

a remote command interface for receiving and processing remote commands.

21. The media device of claim 20, wherein:

said remote command interface provides a remote instant publish command.

22. The media device of claim 14, wherein:

said configuration settings include metadata to add to media data captured by said media capture component.

23. The media device of claim 14, wherein:

one of said one or more editing commands provides for modifying an image represented by media data captured by said media capture component.

24. The media device of claim 14, wherein:

said media device is a mobile telephone.

25. A system for publishing media data, comprising:

a media interface of a media device;

means for accessing said media interface;

means for capturing media data using a media capture component of said media device;

means for storing said captured media data in a media file in storage of said media device;

means for modifying said captured media data;

means for publishing said modified media data to a network server;

wherein said capturing, modifying, and publishing are performed using said media interface.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein:

said capturing, modifying, and publishing are performed using an instant publish command of said media interface.

27. A computer program, stored on a tangible storage medium, for use in publishing media data, the program comprising executable instructions that cause a computer to:

access a media interface of a media device;

capture media data using a media capture component of said media device;

store said captured media data in a media file in storage of said media device;

modify said captured media data;

publish said modified media data to a network server;

wherein said capturing, modifying, and publishing are performed using said media interface.

28. The computer program of claim 27, wherein:

said capturing, modifying, and publishing are performed using an instant publish command of said media interface.