Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090110245 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING AND SELECTING A DISCRETE PORTION OF A DIGITAL IMAGE FOR MANIPULATION - A system enables a user viewing a digital image rendered on a display screen to select a discrete portion of the digital image for manipulation. The system comprises the display screen and a user monitor digital camera having a field of view directed towards the user. An image control system drives rendering of the digital image on the display screen. An image analysis module determines a plurality of discrete portions of the digital image which may be subject to manipulation. A indicator module receives a sequence of images from a user monitor digital camera and repositions an indicator between the plurality of discrete portions of the digital image in accordance with motion detected from the sequence of images. Exemplary manipulations may comprise red eye removal and/or application of text tags to the digital image. | 04-30-2009 |
20090112572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INPUT OF TEXT TO AN APPLICATION OPERATING ON A DEVICE - A device comprise an a display screen and an audio circuit for generating an audio signal representing spoken words uttered by the user. A processor executes a first application, a second application, and a text mark-up object. The first application may render a depiction of text on the display screen. The text mark-up object may: i) receiving at least a portion of the audio signal representing spoken words uttered by the user; ii) performing speech recognition to generate a text representation of the spoken words uttered by the user; iii) determining a selected text segment, and iv) performing an input function to input the selected text segment to the second application. The selected text segment may be text which corresponds to both a portion of the depiction of text on the display screen and the text representation of the spoken words uttered by the user. | 04-30-2009 |
20090164896 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY CHANGING A DISPLAY - A technique for managing the display of content on a display of an electronic device may be based on a distance of the user to the display. The distance may be estimated by analyzing video data to detect a face of the user and establish a distance parameter based on a relationship between facial features. Based on this information, the displayed content may be adjusted to facilitate easy viewing of the displayed content, such as by changing the size of the displayed content, the layout of the displayed content, or the number of visual elements that make up the displayed content. | 06-25-2009 |
20090167881 | CAMERA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A CAMERA SYSTEM - A system and method for controlling a camera assembly may include monitoring an image field for blinks by one or more subjects in the image field. The monitoring may be carried out by generating a video signal of the image field, the video signal having a sequence of frames; subtracting a previous frame of the video signal from a current frame of the video signal to generate a difference frame; and identifying image data in the difference frame that is representative of a blink. Each blink may be tracked and associated with a subject from the one or more subjects. Statistical data regarding blink duration and blink rate for each subject from the one or more subjects may be generated. In response to user input to command the taking of a photograph, a determination if a blink is in progress may be made and a flash of the camera assembly may be fired and image data for the photograph may be captured if no blink is detected at the time of the command. Otherwise, firing of the flash and the capturing of the image data may be delayed by an amount of time that is based on the statistical data to minimize firing the flash and capturing the image data during a blink of the one or more subjects. | 07-02-2009 |
20090201313 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES THAT PAN/ZOOM DISPLAYED SUB-AREA WITHIN VIDEO FRAMES IN RESPONSE TO MOVEMENT THEREIN - An electronic device can include a display and a controller. The controller identifies a location within a displayable area of video frames which has movement, and controls panning/zooming of a sub-area within the video frames that is displayed on the display in response to the identified location of the movement. Some configurations of the controller detect movement of a person's mouth within the video frames while the person is speaking, identifies the associated location of the person speaking, identifies characteristics of voice in the video frames that is concurrently occurring with the detected movement of the person's mouth, and correlates the identified voice characteristics with the identified location of the person speaking. The controller then detects subsequent occurrence of voice in the video frames having the identified voice characteristics of the person and, responsive thereto, pans a sub-area within the video frames displayed on the display toward the identified location of the person and/or zooms-in to increase size of the person speaking by decreasing size of a sub-area within the video frames at the location of the speaker that is fit to the display. | 08-13-2009 |
20100085446 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANIPULATION OF A DIGITAL IMAGE - A system for rendering a digital image includes a rendering device for rendering a digital image and a camera for capturing a sequence of images of a user. A conversion module converts the sequence of images into a manipulation command for altering the rendering of the digital image. In one embodiment, the conversion module is a lip reading module that converts a sequence of images depicting the motion of the user's facial features into text tag or visual effects command. The text tag or command may then be applied to the digital image. The digital image may be divided into portions containing principle subject matter, and a text tag or visual effects command may be generated for one or more of the image portions. A facial detection module may be employed to detect changes in the user's facial features to navigate among the image portions. | 04-08-2010 |
20100098258 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MULTICHANNEL AUDIO WITH A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device manipulates a digital video having a video portion and an audio portion to encode the audio portion into a multichannel format. The electronic device may include an audio receiver for receiving the audio portion, and an image analyzer for receiving the video portion and determining at least one directional component of audio from an audio source. To determine the directional component, the image analyzer may include an image locator for determining a location of an audio source, and an orientation detector for determining an orientation of the audio source. An audio encoder may receive an input of the audio portion and the directional component, and the encoder may encode the audio portion in a multichannel format based on the directional component of audio from the audio source. The system may be applied to a plurality of audio sources in a digital video. | 04-22-2010 |
20100110108 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPTIMIZING AN IMAGE DISPLAYED ON A SCREEN - A method and electronic device is provided for optimizing an image displayed on a screen on the electronic device. The size of the image is maximized in relation to the size of the screen and readability of the text in the image is determined by using graphic parameters. | 05-06-2010 |
20100138797 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH SPLIT VISION CONTENT SHARING CONTROL AND METHOD - A portable electronic device, such as a mobile phone, has a main camera and a video call camera that are receive optical input representative of motion of a user's hand(s) or hand gestures. The motion or gestures are decoded and used as a remote control input to control the displaying of content by a display device, such as a television or a projector, which receives the content for display from the mobile phone. A method of displaying content from a portable electronic device on a separate display or projector and of controlling such displaying by remote control based on hand movement or gestures. | 06-03-2010 |
20100141826 | Camera System with Touch Focus and Method - Techniques for focusing a camera assembly on a moving object may include generating a preview video signal of a scene containing the object and analyzing the video signal to track movement of the moving object. As part of the analysis, a touch area for a touch sensitive electronic viewfinder of the camera assembly may be established. The touch area corresponds to the moving object and remains active in a former position of the object. | 06-10-2010 |
20100232704 | DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A device is provided, in which a display screen displays an image; an image analyzer determines at least one potential area of interest in the image; a visual indicator highlights at least a boundary of the at least one potential area of interest, and an optical zoom and/or a digital zoom changes the magnification level of an area of interest selected from the at least one potential area of interest. The device permits a user to zoom in and/or zoom out of the selected area of interest by displacing the boundary of the selected area of interest over at least a portion of the display screen. | 09-16-2010 |
20100245287 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANGING TOUCH SCREEN FUNCTIONALITY - A system and method changes touch screen functionality based on whether a user is detected during camera operation. A first camera generates a video signal containing a representation of at least a portion of a scene within a field of view of the first camera. A controller analyzes the video signal to determine whether one or more physical features of a user of the electronic device are present within the field of view of the first camera. A touch input device includes one or more touch points for receiving user input, each touch point being associated with controlling a respective one of a plurality of functions of the second camera. At least one of the touch points is associated with controlling a shutter function of a second camera, and a total number of touch points is dependent upon a result of the video signal analysis made by the controller. | 09-30-2010 |
20100280874 | MOBILE DEVICE, NETWORK SERVER AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING CORRELATION BETWEEN ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION AND USER BEHAVIOR - The present invention relates to a mobile device, network server and method for evaluating a correlation between advertisement information and the behavior of a user having received the advertisement information to verify the effectiveness of providing advertisement information to a user directly without having a user to take a survey. The method comprises providing advertisement information to the user, maintaining an association between said advertisement information and business location data indicative of at least one location of a business, obtaining mobile device location data about the current location of a mobile device of the user, comparing said mobile device location data with said business location data, and if the comparing step determines that said mobile device location matches with a business location indicated in said business location data, registering the match. | 11-04-2010 |
20100283722 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING A COORDINATE INPUT SURFACE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SUCH AN ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus includes a coordinate input surface on which at least a finger of a user can be placed, a first position estimating unit and a second position obtaining unit. The first position estimating unit is for estimating the position, here referred to as first position, of at least one object placed on the coordinate input surface. The second position obtaining unit is for obtaining an estimation of the position, here referred to as second position, at which a user is looking on the coordinate input surface. The apparatus is configured to be controlled at least based on the combination of the estimated first position and the estimated second position. The invention also relates to a system including such an apparatus, a method for controlling such an apparatus, and a computer program therefor. | 11-11-2010 |
20110013049 | USING A TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY TO CONTROL MAGNIFICATION AND CAPTURE OF DIGITAL IMAGES BY AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a touch sensitive display device, a camera device, and a processor that executes computer readable program code embodied in a computer readable storage medium. Some of the computer readable program code is configured to control magnification of a digital image from the camera device to generate a magnified digital image that is displayed on the display device in response to distance between at least two touch points detected relative to a surface of the display device. Some other computer readable program code is configured to initiate capture of the magnified digital image in response to cessation of detection of at least one of the two touch points. | 01-20-2011 |