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- This invention pertains to the field of electronic imaging systems, and in particular to a digital electronic still camera of the type that is used with a host computer.
- a digital electronic still camera is a device which uses an electronic sensor to capture an image; signal processing to represent the captured signal numerically; and some storage device to preserve the numerical image data. It is further known for a digital electronic still camera to use a removable storage device, such as an integrated circuit memory card, to store images.
- a removable storage device such as an integrated circuit memory card
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,016,107 describes an electronic still camera utilizing image compression and providing digital storage in a removable memory card having a static random access memory. In this camera, the integrated circuits in the removable memory card store image data and a directory locating the data.
- FIG. 1 shows a known electronic still photography system useful for inputting images to a computer.
- the system includes an electronic camera 1 with an electronic sensing section 1 a, a digital processing section 1 b, a memory card slot 2 , and a removable memory card 3 ; and a host computer 4 with a built-in memory card reader 5 , a printer 6 a, a display 6 b, a keyboard data entry device 7 and a disk drive 8 . Images are captured by the sensing section 1 a in the camera 1 , manipulated in the processing section 1 b, stored on the memory card 3 , and transferred from the card 3 to the host computer 4 .
- the software used to control the sensing and processing sections 1 a and 1 b in the camera is located in firmware memory 1 c in the camera 1 .
- the application software used to control the playback operations of the host computer is supplied, at least in part, by the camera manufacturer. For instance, the manufacturer may provide a special disk or memory card that comes with the camera.
- the application software is transferred to the computer hard drive 8 , and then downloaded to a computer random access memory (RAM) memory 9 a, where the program is used by a central processing unit (CPU) 9 b.
- RAM computer random access memory
- Digital cameras such as the Kodak Digital Science DC40TM camera sold by Eastman Kodak Company, allow almost a hundred images to be stored. Because the images are stored as sequentially numbered images, it can be difficult and time consuming to locate a group of images of interest from all of the images stored in the camera.
- an insurance adjuster may take a number of photos in processing a number of different claims during one day's operations. It would be desirable to be able to identify the images of each group, for example by claim number or client name. It may be further desirable to allow this information, along with the date and time or a company logo, to be optionally included with the image data. This ensures that any prints made from the camera can be easily identified.
- Such processing of the captured images is today performed in a host computer, such as the host computer 4 in FIG. 1 .
- the Kodak Professional Digital Camera System included a digital camera tethered by cable to a separate digital storage unit (DSU).
- the DSU similar to the computer 4 of FIG. 1 , contained a hard drive for storing images, a small image display, and a keypad for manipulating the images.
- the system included a “tag” feature that allowed a user to flag selected images for later display or for uploading from the DSU to another computer.
- a user wanted to tag a couple of already-captured images for later viewing or uploading. The first of the images would be brought up on the display and a “tag” button on the keypad would be pressed, and so on with the other images that are to be tagged.
- the user presses a “find tags” key on the keypad the first of the tagged images is displayed (and/or uploaded).
- the second tagged image is displayed (and/or uploaded), and so on.
- the Kodak Hawkeye II camera also allowed the user to type in a name for any one image after the image was taken, and to add a “note” text-string to the image file.
- Both cameras allowed a simple division of already-captured images into “tagged” and “not-tagged” images and required a pattern of keystrokes subsequent to capture for every image of interest.
- the tagging feature functioned more as a post-capture data gatekeeper than as a useful tool for image handling. Anything more complex in the way of data organization requires, as shown in FIG. 1 , the use of a special application program in the host computer 4 to organize and sort the image data. Consequently, it would be desirable to have an electronic still system that could handle image content more efficiently in the field than is presently the case.
- an electronic camera captures images representing a variety of subjects and categorizes the image according to subject matter.
- the camera comprises an image sensor for the images, a converter stage for converting the images into digital image data, and a memory for storing a plurality of categories providing classification of the images by subject.
- a processor in the camera has the capability of assigning the plurality of categories to the images captured by the camera, with each category providing subject classification of one or more images.
- a user then interacts with a user control on the camera in order to select one or more of the categories for the images, and an output image signal is then generated including the digital image data corresponding to the images and the one or more categories selected by the user control.
- a digital camera includes a display-based “tag” icon/feature which the user can set to an appropriate category before taking a group of pictures.
- the category names can be defaults, or can be names and optional text (i.e., account number) and/or graphics overlays (i.e., company logo) entered via a host computer and uploaded to the camera before the pictures are taken.
- the category name is stored along with the image data in the image file, and any text and graphics logo, as appropriate, are overlaid onto the image.
- the user can select a category and download only the images which have a particular category name, or the images can be stored in folders labeled with each category name.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram of a known electronic imaging system incorporating a digital camera for inputting images to a host computer.
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an electronic camera configured according to the invention to process and categorize images.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram of the status display panel and the user control switches used in the camera shown in FIG. 2 .
- FIG. 4 is a process diagram for categorizing images according to default parameters stored in the camera shown in FIG. 2 .
- FIG. 5 is a process diagram for categorizing images according to externally generated parameters supplied to the camera shown in FIG. 2 .
- FIG. 6 is an example of categories that are customized from a host computer.
- FIG. 7 is an example of a file format resulting from customized categories.
- FIG. 8 is an example of an image display with customized category information overlaid into the image.
- FIG. 9 is an additional diagram of the status display panel and the user control switches set up for activating an overlay feature.
- FIG. 10 is an example of an image file management structure using categories.
- FIG. 2 shows an electronic still camera capable of categorizing images as taught by the invention.
- the electronic still camera is divided generally into an input section A and a compression and recording section B.
- the input section A includes an exposure section 10 for directing image light from a subject (not shown) toward an image sensor 12 .
- a flash unit 11 may be used to illuminate the subject.
- the exposure section 10 includes conventional optics for directing the image light through a diaphragm, which regulates the optical aperture, and a shutter, which regulates exposure time.
- the sensor 12 which includes a two-dimensional array of photosites corresponding to picture elements of the image, is a conventional charge-coupled device (CCD) using, e.g., either well-known interline transfer or frame transfer techniques.
- CCD charge-coupled device
- the sensor 12 is exposed to image light to capture a particular image; accordingly, analog image charge information corresponding to the particular image is generated in respective photosites.
- the charge information is applied to an output diode 14 , which converts the charge information to analog image signals corresponding to respective picture elements of the particular image captured.
- the analog image signals are applied to an A/D converter 16 , which generates digital image data from the analog input signals for each picture element.
- the digital image data is applied to an image buffer 18 for storing one or more images, albeit shown in FIG. 2 as a random access memory (RAM) with storage capacity for a plurality of still images.
- a programmed control processor 20 generally controls the input section A of the camera by initiating and controlling exposure (by operation of the diaphragm and shutter (not shown) in the exposure section 10 ), by controlling the flash unit 11 , by generating the horizontal and vertical clocks needed for driving the sensor 12 and for clocking image information therefrom, and by enabling the A/D converter 16 in conjunction with the image buffer 18 for each signal segment relating to a picture element. Exposure control would typically be effected by using ambient light information from a photocell 19 , and a shutter button 21 allows the user to initiate a capture cycle.
- the processor 20 also receives date and time information from a date/time generator 20 a.
- the stored data is applied to a programmed digital signal processor 22 , which controls the throughput processing rate for the compression and recording section B of the camera.
- the algorithms and other operating code used by the processor 22 are stored in an algorithm memory 28 .
- the digital signal processor 22 compresses each still image stored in the image buffer 18 according to any one of a number of known image compression algorithms, such as the well-known JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) discrete cosine transformation-based compression algorithm.
- the processor 22 applies the compression algorithm from the memory 28 to the digital image data, and sends the compressed data to a removable storage device via a signal port 26 .
- compression is shown in the camera of FIG. 2 , compression is not a necessary feature, and uncompressed data could be stored instead in the removable storage device.
- the signal port 26 is a card interface and the removable storage device is a memory card 24 .
- a memory card 24 is shown in this system as the storage device, other devices may be used, such as a floppy disk magnetic medium, a small hard drive, or optical storage (in the latter cases, suitable conventional reading/writing apparatus would be provided in the camera, e.g., magnetic or optical read/write head, etc.).
- a representative memory card is a card adapted to the PCMCIA card interface standard, such as described in the PC Card Standard, Release 2.0, published by The Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, Sunnyvale, Calif., September 1991.
- the memory card 24 accordingly contains solid state memory 24 a, such as Flash EPROM memory, which the card uses to store image data files.
- the digital camera includes a categorization feature which enables a user to establish an appropriate category, providing classification of the images by subject, before taking a group of pictures.
- the category information can be default code symbols (A,B,C, etc.), or can be externally-generated category information, such as names and optional text (i.e., account numbers) and/or graphics overlays (i.e., company logos), which is entered via a host computer and uploaded to the camera through the signal port 26 before the pictures are taken or via cable connection.
- the image is captured and the category information is stored in the removable storage device along with the image data in the image file, and any text and graphics logo, as appropriate, are overlaid onto the image.
- the user can select a particular category and download only the images which have a particular category identifier, or the images can all be downloaded and stored in file folders labeled with each category name.
- the memory card 24 contains additional memory to store header files 24 b containing category information helpful in providing classification of the images by subject matter.
- category information may include default tag codes, such as simple alphabetic identifiers A, B, C, D, etc., or alphanumeric names that can be associated with specific images according to subject matter.
- the header files 24 b can also contain strings of text that identify particular images and separate graphics images that signify or otherwise identify subject matter.
- the header files 24 b can also contain instructions to overlay all or part of the category information into the image data files 24 a, or, alternatively, the digital signal processor 22 can access an algorithm in the algorithm memory 28 which accomplishes the overlay, and then stores all or part of the category information with the image data.
- the externally generated category information can be supplied to the digital camera through the signal port 26 .
- Such externally generated category information can be stored in the Card Information Structure (CIS) of the PCMCIA Format (as described in the aforementioned Release 2.0), in the header data file 24 b, or in a portion of the memory space of the memory 24 a used to store the image data.
- CIS Card Information Structure
- PCMCIA Format as described in the aforementioned Release 2.0
- the camera also contains a memory section 31 , including firmware memory 32 a with operating code for the camera, as well as RAM instruction memory 32 b connected to receive code from the memory card 24 .
- firmware memory 32 a with operating code for the camera
- RAM instruction memory 32 b connected to receive code from the memory card 24 .
- the processor 20 uses the firmware algorithms in the memory 32 a to determine if the memory card 24 contains externally generated files which can be used by the camera. If not, the firmware algorithms supplied with the camera in the memory 32 a are used by the programmable processor 20 . In particular, the default category parameters are stored in the firmware memory 32 a and accessed by the processor 20 .
- the card does contain appropriate externally generated category information, however, these are downloaded from the header file section 24 b of the card 24 to the RAM instruction memory 32 b and used by the programmable processor 20 in place of some portion of the firmware algorithms supplied with the camera from the firmware memory 32 a. In this way the camera can execute customized category definitions which provide higher quality or more complex categorization of pictures.
- a status display 30 connected to the control processor 20 for displaying information useful in operation of the camera, and by a set of user control switches 29 .
- the set of user control switches 29 are also connected to the processor 20 for entering, highlighting, and selecting information displayed on the status display 30 .
- the status display 30 is a liquid crystal display (LCD) having a panel configuration 50 such as shown in FIG. 3 , which includes a “tag” icon 52 a, and an alphanumeric segmented section 52 b.
- LCD liquid crystal display
- the panel configuration includes other typical icons, such as a battery level icon 52 c, a flash mode icon 52 d, a self-timer icon 52 e, and an image delete icon 52 f.
- the user control switches 29 include a toggle switch 54 and a select button 56 .
- the toggle switch 54 is used to toggle to a setting once an icon has been activated by the select button 56 . For example, if the flash mode icon 52 d is highlighted and showing that it is the currently active control, pressing the select button would activate the tag icon 52 a and make it the currently active control.
- the status display 30 might include typical photographic data, such as shutter speed, aperture, exposure bias, color balance (auto, tungsten, fluorescent, daylight), high/low resolution, low light, exposure modes (aperture preferred, shutter preferred), and so on.
- other information unique to this type of camera may be displayed.
- the memory card 24 would ordinarily include a directory signifying the beginning and ending of each stored image. This would show on the display 30 as either (or both) the number of images stored or the number of image spaces remaining, or estimated to be remaining.
- externally generated category information is present in the header file 24 b on the card 24 , it can also be identified on the status display 30 .
- the externally generated category information such as names, text strings, and graphics images can be identified and displayed if the status display 30 has the appropriate display capability.
- the toggle switch 54 can be used to cycle through alphanumeric names that are provided from the host computer and displayed on the segmented section 52 b. Selecting any one name then automatically accesses any text string or graphics image that might be associated with the name in the instruction memory 32 b, and stores such strings or graphics image with the digital image data.
- the camera may also have the additional feature of overlaying a text string, or date and/or time from the date/time generator 20 a, into the image.
- Whether or not the date/time or text string is overlaid in the images of any particular category can be controlled by overlay control information for each category present in the header file 24 b. Alternately, this can be done from additional icons in the panel configuration 50 and from the user control switches 29 , as shown in FIG. 9 . Date, time, name, and text are separately activated by the toggle switch 54 , and “on” (overlay active) or “off” icons are activated by the select switch 56 . It is assumed that an uploaded graphics image would always overlay into the image, but if this is not always desirable, then a separate graphics icon may be provided for overlay control.
- the process for categorizing images according to default parameters is shown in FIG. 4
- the process for categorizing images according to customized, externally generated parameters is shown in FIG. 5 .
- the “tag” icon 52 a when the camera is first turned on, the “tag” icon 52 a will be shown only in outline form (step 60 ). The inner part of the “tag” icon 52 a will fill to indicate when the user has positively selected the tag feature by activation of the user control switches 29 .
- the default mode there are a predetermined plurality of possible categories, for example, five alphabetic categories A,B,C,D,E and NONE (or OFF).
- the user With the tag icon 52 a activated, the user will select categories A,B,C,D,E,NONE (repeat sequence A,B, etc.) by pressing the toggle switch 54 (step 61 ). Each press of the switch 54 causes a different tag code to be displayed on the alphanumeric segment 52 b.
- the user can activate other icons by use of the select button 56 .
- the selected category (tag) is associated with the digital image data (steps 62 , 63 ).
- the steps 62 , 63 are repeated for any additional images in the same category. If a new category is desired, the process reverts to step 61 .
- the user connects the camera (by cable) or the memory card 24 to a host computer (step 64 ), such as the host computer 4 illustrated in FIG. 1 .
- the user opens a camera application and chooses the desired category (step 65 ).
- the images from appropriate categories stored in the camera, or the memory card 24 are downloaded to proper file folders according to the category data stored with the digital image data in each file (step 66 ).
- the user may also customize the tags using the host computer.
- a user inputs category information, such as category names, and related text or graphics images, from the host computer (step 70 ).
- the user then downloads the category information to the camera (step 71 ). This may be done through a tethered connection to the camera, or by writing appropriate files into the memory card 24 .
- the user turns on the camera (step 72 ), and selects an appropriate category (step 73 ).
- the user can also decide to activate the overlay capability for date, time, text, and graphics images.
- the picture is taken (step 74 ), and the category information is optionally overlaid into the image (step 75 ).
- the digital image data is then stored in the memory card 24 together with category information, either separately or as overlaid into the image data (step 76 ).
- the remaining steps are substantially the same as in FIG. 4 .
- FIGS. 6 , 7 , and 8 show examples of categories customized from a host computer, following on the previously mentioned claims adjuster example, and the resulting file format and image display.
- the categories (tags) are given names, optional text strings, and graphics.
- the category information also includes overlay control information indicating whether or not the text string, date, and time should be overlaid into the image.
- the user a free-lance claims adjuster, has created four different categories (H 111 and H 122 ) for different insurance claims from a first insurance company, one (F 123 ) for a claim from a second insurance company, and one (KIDS) for personal images.
- the user also indicates whether the text string should be overlaid into the image, and whether the camera should overlay the date and/or time in the image.
- This category information including names, text, and graphics, is then downloaded to the host computer from the memory card 24 .
- a typical technique for such downloading is described in U.S. Ser. No. 08/219,608, entitled “Electronic Imaging System Using a Removable Software-Enhanced Storage Device”, which is to issue as U.S. Pat. No. 5,477,264 on Dec. 19, 1995.
- the number of tag categories that can be selected in the camera, and the four-letter name of each category is as set by the user via the host computer.
- the user selects the appropriate category before taking a sequence of images.
- the tag names and text are then included in the image files, as shown in FIG. 7 .
- the user selected Tag name H 111 and took images # 1 - 2 .
- the user then selected Tag name KIDS and took images 3 - 5 .
- the appropriate overlay information for the tag chosen is used.
- images are stored on the removable memory card 3 within a file 80 containing a group of files corresponding to each category.
- file 82 contains images # 1 and # 2 having tag name “H 111 ”
- file 84 contains images # 3 , # 4 and # 5 having tag name “KIDS”
- file 86 contains image # 6 having tag name “F 123 ”.
- the card is inserted into the computer memory card reader 5 (see FIG. 1 ).
- the computer uses the software supplied with the camera to check if the memory card contains such information. If the card does contain appropriate category information, this information is downloaded from the card to the RAM instruction memory 9 a and used by the CPU 9 b in combination with the software algorithms from the hard drive 8 . This allows a quick and convenient way of categorizing the images accessed by the computer, without requiring further intervention from the host computer.
- the images are transferred from the camera to the computer via the removable memory, rather than a cable interface. Therefore, the camera does not have to be in the same location as the computer. This makes it possible to view the images from the camera in many different locations, on many different computers, as long as the computer has the ability to both accept the removable memory and correctly process the image data. Since the removable memory can be used to store code for processing the image data in the computer, this code can include the processing algorithms needed to download the stored images according to the stored categories.
- the advantage of storing the processing algorithms on the removable memory is that it eliminates the need for a separate means of supplying the code, such as the floppy disk. Supplying the algorithms along with the images on the removable memory, such as a PCMCIA card, makes it possible for any computer capable of reading the image data from the card to also download and utilize the algorithms needed to process the image data in order to create one or more files of categorized images.
- the image files shown in FIG. 7 could be stored in many different types of optical, magnetic, or solid-state digital memory.
- the category customization information shown in FIG. 6 could be transferred from the computer 3 to the camera 1 via a cable connection instead of via a removable memory card, or the camera 1 could include means for entering category customization information.
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- 1 ELECTRONIC CAMERA
- 1A ELECTRONIC SENSING SECTION
- 1B DIGITAL PROCESSING SECTION
- 1C FIRMWARE MEMORY
- 2 MEMORY CARD SLOT
- 3 REMOVABLE MEMORY CARD
- 4 COMPUTER
- 5 MEMORY CARD READER
- 6a PRINTER
- 6b DISPLAY
- 7 KEYBOARD
- 8 HARD DRIVE
- 9A COMPUTER RAM MEMORY
- 9B CPU
- 10 EXPOSURE SECTION
- 11 FLASH UNIT
- 12 IMAGE SENSOR
- 14 OUTPUT DIODE
- 16 A/D CONVERTER
- 18 IMAGE BUFFER
- 20 CONTROL PROCESSOR
- 21 SHUTTER BUTTON
- 22 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR
- 24 MEMORY CARD
- 24A SOLID STATE IMAGE MEMORY
- 24B EXTERNALLY GENERATED DATA FILES
- 26 SIGNAL PORT
- 28 ALGORITHM MEMORY
- 29 USER CONTROL SWITCHES
- 30 STATUS DISPLAY PANEL
- 31 MEMORY SECTION
- 32a FIRMWARE MEMORY
- 32b INSTRUCTION MEMORY
- 34 INTERFACE
- 35 NON-VOLATILE IMAGE MEMORY
- 36 ELECTRICALLY ERASABLE FIRMWARE MEMORY
- 38 INTERFACE CABLE
- 50 PANEL CONFIGURATION
- 52a “TAG” ICON
- 52b ALPHANUMERIC SECTION
- 52c BATTERY ICON
- 52d FLASH MODE ICON
- 52e SELF TIMER ICON
- 52f IMAGE DELETE ICON
- 54 TOGGLE SWITCH
- 56 SELECTOR SWITCH
- 60-66 STEPS
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