Contact sheet file-generating digital camera
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorLainye E. Heiles
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Abstract
A digital camera that generates contact file sheets is disclosed. The digital camera includes a picture-taking mechanism and a contact sheet generation mechanism. The picture-taking mechanism takes pictures by generating image files corresponding to the pictures. The contact sheet generation mechanism generates one or more contact sheet files. Each contact sheet file includes a number of thumbnail images. Each thumbnail image corresponds to one of the image files.
Claims25
A digital camera comprising:
- a picture-taking mechanism to take pictures by generating image files corresponding to the pictures;
- and,
- a contact sheet generation mechanism to generate one or more contact sheet files, each contact sheet file including a plurality of thumbnail images, each thumbnail image corresponding to one of the image files.
A digital camera comprising:
- a picture-taking mechanism to take pictures by generating image files corresponding to the pictures;
- and,
- a contact sheet generation mechanism to generate one or more persistent additional image files, each additional image file including a plurality of reduced-in-size images, each reduced-in-size image corresponding to one of the image files generated by the picture-taking mechanism.
A digital camera comprising:
- means for generating image files corresponding to pictures taken by the digital camera;
- and,
- means for generating one or more contact sheet files, each contact sheet file including a plurality of thumbnail images, each thumbnail image corresponding to one of the image files.
A method for performance by a digital camera comprising:
- generating image files corresponding to pictures taken with the digital camera;
- and,
- generating one or more contact sheet files, each contact sheet file including a plurality of thumbnail images, each thumbnail image corresponding to one of the image files.
A method for performance by a digital camera comprising:
- removing an image file corresponding to a picture taken with the digital camera;
- and,
- updating a contact sheet file to remove a thumbnail image corresponding to the image file from the contact sheet file, the contact sheet file originally including at least one thumbnail image including the thumbnail image corresponding to the image file.
A method for performance by a digital camera comprising:
- removing an indicated image file selected from a plurality of image files corresponding to pictures taken with the digital camera;
- and,
- updating one or more contact sheet files including the contact sheet file previously updated to remove a thumbnail image corresponding to the indicated image file from the one or more contact sheet files.
A computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for execution by a digital camera comprising:
- a first set of instructions for generating first image files corresponding to pictures taken with the digital camera;
- a second set of instructions for generating one or more second image files, each second image file including a plurality of reduced-in-size images, each reduced-in size image corresponding to one of the first image files.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.