Back to results
US 8,301,995 B2Granted
Labeling and sorting items of digital data by use of attached annotations
AssigneeCSR Technology Inc.
InventorsEli Pozniansky, Shimon Pertsel
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Annotations are associated with individual digital pictures that represent a characteristic of the pictures, such as their content, place of taking, etc. An annotation is directly entered into a digital camera and selected for association with pictures to be taken after that. The association of the selected annotation occurs automatically within the camera until another annotation is selected. An annotation is preferably entered into the camera by the voice of the user prior to taking pictures that are characterized by the annotation. The pictures may then be conveniently sorted by subject matter through use of the annotations. The same technique may be used to annotate audio segments.
Claims44
A method of operating a digital content acquisition device, comprising:
- a user selects a first annotation stored in the acquisition device that identifies some aspect of at least a first content item to be captured,
- capture at least the first content item and one or more subsequently captured content items in the acquisition device,
- associate, within the acquisition device and without user intervention, the first annotation with the first content item,
- automatically associate, within the acquisition device and without user intervention, the first annotation with any other of the subsequently captured content items until a second annotation stored within the acquisition device that identifies some aspect of at least a second content item to be captured is selected by the user,
- capture the second content item in the acquisition device,
- thereafter associate, within the acquisition device and without user intervention, the second annotation with at least the second content item,
- store data of the captured content items along with the associated first and second annotations and record linking references of the associated annotations into headers of the captured content items;
- when the acquisition device is turned on, determine whether the acquisition device had been turned off for more than a predetermined time period before the acquisition device being turned on;
- and
- if the acquisition device had been turned off for more than the predetermined time period before the acquisition device being turned on, automatically generate an alert of whether to associate a previous annotation with a next content item to be captured, wherein the previous annotation is associated with a last content item captured in the acquisition device before the acquisition device was turned off.
7 more elements
A method of utilizing a digital acquisition device having a built-in microphone, comprising:
- recording a first memorandum in the acquisition device by speech through the microphone,
- acquiring a first digital content item and a plurality of subsequently acquired digital content items in succession in the acquisition device,
- associating without user intervention the recorded first memorandum with the first acquired digital content items,
- thereafter automatically associating without user intervention the recorded first memorandum with one or more of the subsequently acquired digital content items,
- thereafter recording a second memorandum in the acquisition device by speech through the microphone,
- thereafter automatically associating the second memorandum with one or more of the subsequently acquired digital content items acquired subsequent to recording the second memorandum,
- storing the data of the first digital content item and the plurality of subsequently acquired digital content items along with the associated first and second memoranda and recording linking references of the associated memoranda into headers of the digital content items;
- when the acquisition device is turned on, determining whether the acquisition device had been turned off for more than a predetermined time period before the acquisition device being turned on;
- and
- if the acquisition device had been turned off for more than the predetermined time period before the acquisition device being turned on, automatically generating an alert of whether to associate a previous memorandum with a next digital content item to be acquired, wherein the previous memorandum is associated with a last digital content item acquired in the acquisition device before the acquisition device was turned off.
7 more elements
A hand held digital data acquisition device, comprising:
- an interface that acquires individual items of digital data,
- a microphone that generates data of audio annotations spoken from outside of the acquisition device, and
- a processor that automatically and without user intervention links a first and one or more subsequently acquired ones of the individual items of acquired digital data to data of the most recent annotation spoken into the microphone prior to acquiring the individual items of digital data and records linking references of the annotation into headers of items of digital data;
- wherein, when the acquisition device is turned on, the processor further determines whether the acquisition device had been turned off for more than a predetermined time period before the acquisition device being turned on;
- and
- wherein if the acquisition device had been turned off for more than the predetermined time period before the acquisition device being turned on, the processor further automatically generates an alert of whether to link a next individual of digital data to be acquired to data of a previous audio annotation, wherein the data of the previous audio annotation is linked with a last individual of digital data acquired in the acquisition device before the acquisition device was turned off.
3 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.