Method and apparatus for transmitting a digital picture with textual material
AssigneeC3 Development, LLC
InventorsHarry Fox, Jacob Benjamin, Ronnie Wulfson
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Abstract
A method and system for incorporating textual and audio material into a JPEG file in a manner allowing both a photograph and the textual material to be stored as one unit and transferred as one unit. The textual materials stored in various photograph tag markers which become part of the JPEG file. The JPEG file including the textual material can be transferred to an authorized user who could edit the file based upon password security. The textual materials can appear around any of the borders of the photographs or can be directly embedded into the photograph.
Claims28
A method for creating an augmented media file, comprising the steps of:
- creating an original digital photograph having a plurality of n digital pixels said plurality of n digital pixels including a first section within said n digital pixels containing m digital pixels;
- transferring said original digital photograph to a first storage device provided in a first microprocessor provided with a first data entry device;
- editing said original digital photograph using said data entry device by replacing said first section containing m digital pixels with a second section of m digital pixels of non-photographic material, thereby producing an altered digital photograph;
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- creating an augmented media file by storing said altered digital photograph and said first section of digital pixels as a single file, wherein said first section is stored within photographic tag markers appended to said altered digital photograph.
An augmented media file for displaying an altered photograph on a display device, the altered photograph originally containing a plurality of n digital pixels used to create an original photograph, the n digital pixels including a first section within the n digital pixels containing m digital pixels, the augmented media file comprising:
- the altered photograph with the first section containing m digital pixels replaced with a second section of m digital pixels of non-photographic material;
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- photographic tag markers affixed to said altered photograph to create the augmented media file, said photographic tag markers further including the first section of m digital pixels, wherein said altered photograph and said photographic tag markers form a single augmented media file.
A system for creating an augmented media file containing both a photograph and non-photographic material in a single file, comprising:
- a camera producing an original digital photograph containing n digital pixels;
- a means for transferring said original digital photograph to a first storage device including a first microprocessor having a first display, said original digital photograph including a first section containing m digital pixels, said original digital photograph creating a media file within said first storage device;
- a first data input device connected to said first microprocessor for replacing said first section of said digital photograph with a second section of m digital pixels of non-photographic material thereby producing an altered digital photograph;
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- a device for creating an augmented media file, said augmented JPEG file including said altered digital photograph with said second section of m digital pixels replacing said first section of m digital pixels, said augmented media files including photographic tag markers said photographic tag markers including said first section of m digital pixels, wherein said altered photograph and said photographic tag marker form a single augmented media file.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.