Method for checking the processing of digital photo transmission messages

• US 20060203104A1
• Filed: 03/05/2004
• Published: 09/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Vau, Jean-Marie, Adelbert, Santie, Touchard, Nicolas
• Application Number:
  US10/549,794
• Publication Number:
  US 20060203104A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/231.300
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32 Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device H04N1/38, H04N1/387 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32117 in a separate transmission or protocol signal prior to or subsequent to the image data transmission, e.g. in digital identification signal [DIS], in non standard setup [NSS] or in non standard field [NSF] for mode signalling H04N1/333

Abstract

Method for checking the processing of digital photo image data from mobile telephone equipment intended for an image management service provider, comprising,—the establishment of geographic localization data (13), (13a) of the mobile imaging equipment, and—the execution of processing checking instructions (20, 50, 54, 56), according to the mobile imaging equipment localization data, so as to prevent at least one image processing step when the localization data corresponds to a place where image capture is prohibited. Application to mobile phones provided with image sensor or digital cameras having a wireless link.

Claims

1. ) A method for checking the processing of digital photo image data from mobile telephone equipment intended for an image management service provider, comprising,

the establishment of geographic localization data (13), (13a) of the mobile imaging equipment, and

the execution of processing checking instructions (20, 50, 54, 56), according to the mobile imaging equipment localization data, so as to prevent at least one image processing step when the localization data corresponds to a place where image capture is prohibited.

2. ) A method according to claim 1, wherein the checking instruction includes the rejection (58) of images transmitted from the mobile imaging equipment.

3. ) A method according to claim 1, wherein the processing checking instruction includes the sending of a message containing an executable instruction (50, 51, 52, 53, 54) to the mobile imaging equipment.

4. ) A method according to claim 3, wherein the executable instruction is an instruction (52) prohibiting image data transmission to the service provider.

5. ) A method according to claim 3, wherein the executable instruction is an instruction (54) for marking the transmitted images.

6. ) A method according to claim 3, wherein the executable instruction is an instruction (50) prohibiting the triggering of the shot.

7. ) A method according to claim 1, wherein the geographic localization data (13) is established by a telecommunications operator providing the message transmission between the mobile imaging equipment and the image management service provider.

8. ) A method according to claim 1 comprising in addition, the establishment of temporal data of the shot or of the transmission of a processing request message intended for the image management service provider, and the taking into account of the temporal data for the execution of the checking instruction.