# US 2004/0070673 A1 · Electronic apparatus

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- Number: US 2004/0070673 A1
- Document ID: US20040070673A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 10/668,199
- Filed: 2003-09-24
- Published: 2004-04-15
- Earliest claimed: 2002-09-25
- Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: Tamaki Nakamura
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20040070673A1

## CPC

- H04N 1/32128: {attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image (for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144)}
- H04N 1/21: Intermediate information storage (H04N1/387, H04N1/41 take precedence {; for control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32358; indexing, editing G11B27/00})
- H04N 13/161: Encoding, multiplexing or demultiplexing different image signal components (for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597)
- H04N 13/178: Metadata, e.g. disparity information
- H04N 13/194: Transmission of image signals
- H04N 13/31: using parallax barriers
- H04N 13/324: Colour aspects
- H04N 13/359: Switching between monoscopic and stereoscopic modes
- H04N 13/398: Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
- H04N 19/597: specially adapted for multi-view video sequence encoding
- H04N 2201/3225: of data relating to an image, a page or a document
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

An electronic apparatus that facilitates determining whether image data is representing a 2D image or a 3D image and determining a type of image data, is provided. When image data is obtained, the electronic apparatus memorizes, in addition to the image data and a filename thereof, a dimension of an image represented by the image data and a type of the image data as an attribute thereof The electronic apparatus also creates from the image data and memorizes image data representing a thumbnail image, and displays the thumbnail images arranged in a list view so that a content of the image represented by the image data is easily recognized. It is also possible to provide the thumbnail image data representing a 3D image.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An electronic apparatus for obtaining and memorizing image data representing an image and displaying the image represented by the memorized image data, comprising:
a memory for memorizing, in addition to the image data, an attribute about a dimension of the image represented by the image data depending on whether the obtained image data represents a two dimensional image without parallax or a three dimensional image with parallax.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

An electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:
a communications section for connecting to the Internet and obtaining the image data therethrough.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

An electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:
a camera for photographing the image so that the image data is obtained by the camera.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

An electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:
an input section for inputting audio;
an output section for outputting audio; and
a communications section for transmitting and receiving audio,
wherein the electronic apparatus functions as a telephone.

### Claim 5

An electronic apparatus for obtaining and memorizing image data representing an image and displaying the image represented by the memorized image data, comprising:
a memory for memorizing, in addition to the image data, an attribute about a format of the image data.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

An electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 5, further comprising:
an input section for inputting audio;
an output section for outputting audio; and
a communications section for transmitting and receiving audio,
wherein the electronic apparatus functions as a telephone.