DIGITAL CAMERA WITH CHARACTER BASED MODE INITIATION

• US 20100141592A1
• Filed: 12/09/2008
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Vogel, Richard M., Muszak, Jerald J., Andrievsky, Andrei, Blythe, Jason W., Telek, Michael J., White, Timothy J., Marino, Frank
• Application Number:
  US12/330,713
• Publication Number:
  US 20100141592A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A digital camera includes a touch-screen for receiving individually or in any combination one ore more characters all of which are short-hand notation for corresponding camera modes or functions from a user; memory for storing one or more characters all of which individually or in any combination are short-hand notation for corresponding camera modes or functions; and a processor that receives the user input from the touch-screen and correlates the received input to one of the stored characters and directing the selected camera mode or function to initiate.

Claims

1. A digital camera comprising:

(a) a touch-screen for receiving individually or in any combination one ore more characters all of which are short-hand notation for corresponding camera modes or functions from a user;

(b) memory for storing one or more characters all of which individually or in any combination are short-hand notation for corresponding camera modes or functions; and

(c) a processor that receives the user input from the touch-screen and correlates the received input to one of the stored characters and directing the selected camera mode or function to initiate.

2. The digital camera as in claim 1, wherein the letter “

v”

represents video mode.

3. The digital camera as in claim 1, wherein the letter “

s”

represents still scene image mode.

4. The digital camera as in claim 1 further comprising a stylus for touching the touch screen.

5. The digital camera as in claim 1, wherein the touch-screen displays modes in sequence for the case in which some or all of the input characters are the same.

6. The digital camera as in claim 1, wherein the touch-screen is tapped in a first frequency for accepting a camera mode and tapped in a second frequency for rejecting a camera mode.

7. The digital camera as in claim 1, wherein the characters are English characters.

8. The digital camera as in claim 1, wherein the characters are non-English characters.