Apparatus and method for providing pictures according to sharing levels
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoung-kyu JIN, Jong-woo Jung, Joo-kyung Woo
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Abstract
A picture sharing apparatus and method are provided. The picture sharing apparatus includes technology for providing pictures differentiated according to sharing levels. The picture sharing technology may receive a picture request from a user's terminal and determine that user's sharing level and provide a picture differentiated in a predetermined form according to the user's sharing level. The picture sharing technology fulfils the two conflicting tasks of privacy protection and picture sharing.
Claims20
A picture sharing apparatus for providing pictures differentiated according to sharing levels, the apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit to store pictures;
- a level determination unit to determine a sharing level of a user, in response to receiving a picture request from the user's terminal;
- a differentiation unit to differentiate a picture stored in the storage unit, according to the user's sharing level;
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- to a picture provider to provide the differentiated picture to the user's terminal.
A picture sharing apparatus for providing pictures differentiated according to sharing levels, the apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit to store pictures differentiated according to sharing levels;
- is a differentiation unit to differentiate a picture at each of the sharing levels and store the differentiated pictures in the storage unit;
- a level determination unit to determine a sharing level of a user, in response to a picture request from the user's terminal;
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- a picture provider to read data of a differentiated picture corresponding to the requested picture from the storage unit, and provide the differentiated picture to the user's terminal according to the user's sharing level.
A picture sharing method of providing pictures differentiated according to sharing levels, the method comprising:
- determining a sharing level of a user requesting a picture, in response to a picture request from the user's terminal;
- differentiating a picture according to the user's sharing level;
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- providing the differentiated picture to the user terminal.
A picture sharing method of providing pictures differentiated according to sharing levels, the method comprising:
- differentiating a picture according to the sharing levels and storing the differentiated pictures;
- determining a sharing level of a user requesting a picture, in response to a picture request from the user's terminal;
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- reading data of a differentiated picture corresponding to the requested picture from among the stored, differentiated pictures, and providing the differentiated picture to the user's terminal according to the user's sharing level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.