Method and device for presenting digital images on a low-definition screen

• US 7,068,857 B1
• Filed: 08/14/2000
• Issued: 06/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Monument Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Seignol, Olivier, Buff, Michel, Touchard, Nicholas P., Vau, Jean-Marie
• Primary Examiner(s): Ahmed, Samir
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kassa, Yosef
• Application Number:
  US09/638,746
• Time in Patent Office: 2,143 Days
• Field of Search: 382/251, 382/260, 382/263, 382/264, 382/294, 382/277, 382/278, 382/282, 382/286, 382/293, 382/295, 382/298, 382/299, 382/305, 382/308, 382/164, 382/165, 382/167, 382/275, 382/219, 345/1.2, 345/2.1, 345/2.2, 345/2.3, 345/3.3, 345/3.4, 345/4, 345/698, 345/699, 345/538, 345/214, 345/733, 345/734, 345/744, 358/401, 358/405, 358/451, 358/452, 348/14.02, 348/14.03, 348/14.05, 348/14.07, 348/333.02, 348/333.12, 348/404.1, 455/92, 455/97, 455/98, 455/414.1, 455/556.1, 455/557, 455/566, 709/228, 709/229
• US Class Current: 382/299
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4092 Image resolution transcoding, e.g. by using client-server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/33315 reading or reproducing mode only, e.g. sheet size, resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/33376 according to characteristics or state of one of the communicating parties, e.g. available memory capacity
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/33321 Image or page size, e.g. A3, A4

Abstract

In order to present digital images on different types of screens, and especially on low definition screens, the system provides a server that is adapted for receiving messages coming from at least one display device, and a table for recognizing the type of display device with which the server is communicating. The server performs a transformation for adapting the definition of the image that is transmitted to the type of display screen that is recognized.

Claims

1. A method for displaying a digital image having a relatively high definition and contained in a database of a server on the screen of a display device, comprising the steps of:

a) on request coming from the display device requiring the display of a digital image in the database, determining the type of screen associated with the display device on which the image will be received;

b) before transmission, applying to the image to be transmitted, a transformation of the image definition, the transformation being a function of the type of display screen that has been determined in step a);

c) transmitting the image modified by the transformation; and

d) displaying this modified image on the screen of the display device;

wherein at least two different images are transmitted to the display device, the images being sufficiently similar so as to increase the visual perception of grey levels by sequential alternating display of the distinct images received.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein at least one vignette corresponding to the original image is associated with each image in the database.

3. A method for displaying a digital image having a relatively high definition and contained in a database of a server on the screen of a display device, comprising the steps of:

a) on request coming from the display device requiring the display of a digital image in the base, determining the type of screen associated with the display device on which the image will be received;

b) determining on the image at least one principal area of interest containing an object;

c) detecting the characteristics of the object contained in said at least one principal area of general interest is detected to at least the area of principal interest;

d) applying to at least the area of principal interest a transformation which is a function of the characteristics of the object in order to adapt the characteristics of the image of the object contained in said at least one area of principal interest to the given type of display screen, to at least the area of principal interest;

e) applying to at least the area of principal interest a transformation which is a function of the definition of the given type of display screen in order to adapt the definition of the object contained in said at least one area of principal interest to the characteristics of the display screen;

f) transmitting the image modified by the transformation; and

g) displaying said area of principal interest on the screen of said given type.