DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME WITH DIAL-A-TAG FUNCTIONALITY
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Abstract
A digital photo frame, including a memory for storing a plurality of digital photos, and tags associated with the digital photos, where a tag for a digital photo corresponds to an object appearing in the digital photo, a screen for displaying the digital photos, an interface for making connection with a communicator, wherein the communicator includes a storage for storing a contact list of phone numbers for objects, and a controller, coupled with the memory and the interface, for rendering one of the plurality of digital photos on the screen, and for instructing the communicator via the interface (i) to identify the phone number of a selected object, and (ii) to dial the identified phone number, in response to user activation of a tag associated with the rendered digital photo and corresponding to the selected object.
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20 Claims
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1-9. -9. (canceled)
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10. A method for communication using a digital photo frame, comprising:
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rendering a digital photo with a plurality of different objects appearing in the photo, the digital photo having one or more name tags associated therewith, wherein a name tag for a digital photo corresponds to an object appearing in the photo; receiving a user input phone call command for any selected one of the name tags associated with the rendered digital photo; and in response to said receiving; automatically determining a phone number for the object corresponding to the selected name tag; and automatically dialing the phone number for the object corresponding to the selected name tag. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for communication using a digital photo frame, comprising:
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rendering a digital photo with a plurality of different objects appearing in the photo, the digital photo having one or more name tags associated therewith, wherein a name tag for a digital photo corresponds to an object appearing in the photo; automatically determining phone numbers corresponding to the one or more name tags; receiving a user input phone call command for any selected one of the name tags associated with the rendered digital photo; and in response to said receiving, automatically dialing the phone number for the object corresponding to the selected name tag. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for linking name tags associated with digital photos to objects in a contact list, by a digital photo frame, comprising:
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associating name tags with a plurality of digital photos, where each digital photo comprises a plurality of different objects appearing therein, and where a name tag for a digital photo corresponds to an object appearing in the digital photo; accessing a contact list of phone numbers for objects; automatically searching for the object corresponding to one of the name tags within the contact list; and if the object corresponding to one of the name tags is located within the contact list, then automatically enabling a user to assign the object'"'"'s phone number to the name tag; and if the object corresponding to one of the name tags is not located within the contact list, then enabling a user to assign an existing object or a new object to the name tag.
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19. A method for linking name tags associated with digital photos to objects in a contact list, by a digital photo frame, comprising:
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for each of a plurality of objects appearing in a digital photo; associating a name tag with the digital photo, the name tag corresponding to the object; accessing a contact list of phone numbers for objects; and automatically enabling a user to assign one of the objects in the contact list to the name tag, or to add a new object and phone number to the contact list and to assign the new object to the name tag; and in response to the user activating any one of the name tags, automatically dialing the phone number of the object assigned to that name tag.
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20-28. -28. (canceled)
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