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1. 发明授权

US07881715B2 Media spooler system and methodology providing efficient transmission of media content from wireless devices 有权
标题翻译：媒体后台处理程序系统和方法提供来自无线设备的媒体内容的高效传输
公开(公告)号：US07881715B2
公开(公告)日：2011-02-01
申请号：US11516809
申请日：2006-09-05
申请人： Shekhar Kirani , Matthew H. Gerlach , Timothy W. Genske , David Vogel , William G. Swinton , Venkat V. Easwar , Eric O. Bodnar
发明人： Shekhar Kirani , Matthew H. Gerlach , Timothy W. Genske , David Vogel , William G. Swinton , Venkat V. Easwar , Eric O. Bodnar
IPC分类号： H04W4/00
CPC分类号： G06T9/007 , H04L67/04 , H04L67/06 , H04L67/1095
摘要： A media spooler system is described that provides a methodology for efficient transmission of media content from client devices, such transmission of digital images from wireless digital cameras. The media spooler or gateway addresses wireless transmission problems by acting as a protocol gateway between a thin-client device and a target host or server (supported by a server infrastructure). More particularly, the media spooler of the present invention acts as a protocol gateway between thin-client devices (e.g., “mobile visual communicator” in the form of a wireless digital camera) and server infrastructure (e.g., server-based computer systems or “Web servers” of a photographic service provider). This task entails accepting multiple, simultaneous connections from various client devices (e.g., wireless digital cameras), extracting information from those devices (e.g., digital photographs or other media content), and then uploading that information to the target server infrastructure. In basic operation, the media spooler queries each client device for the information (e.g., media, such as pictures) the client device thinks should uploaded, and then the media spooler queries the server infrastructure for the subset of pictures that have not been already uploaded. This improved coordination or synchronization of information between a device and target host allows for efficient recovery of dropped cellular data calls by essentially allowing the media spooler to “pick up where it left off.”
摘要翻译：描述了一种媒体假脱机系统，其提供用于从客户端设备有效地传输媒体内容的方法，例如来自无线数字照相机的数字图像的传输。媒体假脱机程序或网关通过充当瘦客户机设备与目标主机或服务器（由服务器基础设施支持）之间的协议网关来解决无线传输问题。更具体地说，本发明的媒体假脱机器作为瘦客户端设备（例如，无线数字照相机形式的“移动可视通信器”）和服务器基础设施（例如基于服务器的计算机系统或“ 摄影服务提供商的Web服务器“）。该任务需要接受来自各种客户端设备（例如，无线数字照相机）的多个同时连接，从那些设备提取信息（例如，数字照片或其他媒体内容），然后将该信息上传到目标服务器基础设施。在基本操作中，媒体后台处理程序向每个客户端设备查询客户端设备认为应上传的信息（例如，媒体，如图片），然后介质后台处理程序查询服务器基础结构以获得尚未上传的图片子集。这种改进的设备和目标主机之间的信息的协调或同步允许通过基本上允许媒体假脱机程序“拾取其停留在何处”来有效地恢复丢弃的蜂窝数据呼叫。

2. 发明授权

US07103357B2 Media spooler system and methodology providing efficient transmission of media content from wireless devices 有权
公开(公告)号：US07103357B2
公开(公告)日：2006-09-05
申请号：US09759108
申请日：2001-01-11
申请人： Shekhar Kirani , Matthew H. Gerlach , Timothy W. Genske , David Vogel , William G. Swinton , Venkat V. Easwar , Eric O. Bodnar
发明人： Shekhar Kirani , Matthew H. Gerlach , Timothy W. Genske , David Vogel , William G. Swinton , Venkat V. Easwar , Eric O. Bodnar
IPC分类号： H04Q7/20
CPC分类号： G06T9/007 , H04L67/04 , H04L67/06 , H04L67/1095
摘要： A media spooler system is described that provides a methodology for efficient transmission of media content from client devices, such transmission of digital images from wireless digital cameras. The media spooler or gateway addresses wireless transmission problems by acting as a protocol gateway between a thin-client device and a target host or server (supported by a server infrastructure). More particularly, the media spooler of the present invention acts as a protocol gateway between thin-client devices (e.g., “mobile visual communicator” in the form of a wireless digital camera) and server infrastructure (e.g., server-based computer systems or “Web servers” of a photographic service provider). This task entails accepting multiple, simultaneous connections from various client devices (e.g., wireless digital cameras), extracting information from those devices (e.g., digital photographs or other media content), and then uploading that information to the target server infrastructure. In basic operation, the media spooler queries each client device for the information (e.g., media, such as pictures) the client device thinks should uploaded, and then the media spooler queries the server infrastructure for the subset of pictures that have not been already uploaded. This improved coordination or synchronization of information between a device and target host allows for efficient recovery of dropped cellular data calls by essentially allowing the media spooler to “pick up where it left off.”

3. 发明授权

US07610331B1 System and method for dynamic uploading and execution of applications and drivers between devices 有权
公开(公告)号：US07610331B1
公开(公告)日：2009-10-27
申请号：US09660531
申请日：2000-09-13
申请人： Timothy W. Genske , William G. Swinton , David Vogel , Philippe R. Kahn , Eric O. Bodnar
发明人： Timothy W. Genske , William G. Swinton , David Vogel , Philippe R. Kahn , Eric O. Bodnar
IPC分类号： G06F15/16
CPC分类号： G06F9/4411 , H04N1/2179
摘要： A methodology for dynamic (i.e., run-time) uploading and execution of applications and drivers between devices (e.g., between “client” device and one or more (host) devices), in a fully automated manner, is described. The device which is to be hosted (e.g., the “client” device) initially probes its environment to determine which device or devices it is attached to (e.g., the “host” device(s)). Once it has correctly discerned the relevant host or target device(s), the client device includes the capability of immediately sending out (i.e., uploading) a particular driver or application (i.e., object or file of interest) for placement, and ultimately execution, at the host device. Once the particular object or file of interest has been “injected” into the host device and is executing, the client device may simply revert to a “listening mode” in which it waits to be told what to do (i.e., receive commands from the application or driver which is now executing at the host device). This approach is particularly well-suited for devices which serve as “add-on” devices (clients) to other devices (hosts) that are “smarter,” for instance, including more processing capability and/or memory. In this scenario, the client device enters into a dialog with a device with more resources for the purpose of harnessing the resources of the host device for operating the client or add-on device. The client device is, using this approach, able to start running (i.e., driver-directed operation) immediately upon attachment to a host device that can be identified.

4. 发明授权

US07610349B1 Photo-serving communication protocols and methodology for providing disparate host devices with FTP-like access to digital images residing on a digital camera device 有权
标题翻译：照片服务通信协议和方法，用于向不同的主机设备提供FTP访问数字相机设备上的数字图像
公开(公告)号：US07610349B1
公开(公告)日：2009-10-27
申请号：US09703412
申请日：2000-10-31
申请人： William G. Swinton , David Vogel , Philippe R. Kahn , Eric O. Bodnar , Timothy W. Genske
发明人： William G. Swinton , David Vogel , Philippe R. Kahn , Eric O. Bodnar , Timothy W. Genske
IPC分类号： G06F15/16
CPC分类号： H04L67/06 , H04L67/14 , H04L67/141 , H04L69/16 , H04L69/161
摘要： A methodology for providing FTP-like server capability to a portable, intermittently-connected device, such as a digital camera device, is described. Using XML syntax, a photo-serving protocols suite supporting FTP-like photo-serving capability is incorporated into a digital camera device (or other portable device), so that digital images (or other files) on that device may be easily accessed by a variety of disparate hosts over standard protocols. If desired, standard (e.g., generic) FTP may be employed instead of the photo-serving protocols. All hosts that are commonly available include implementations of industry-standard TCP/IP protocols on which the photo-serving protocols may be borne. As a result, no host need have a proprietary, one-off solution to bear the photo-serving protocols. The camera device, at the level of the photo-serving protocols, functions in an identical manner no matter what host the camera device is attached to, and no matter how an individual industry-standard protocol suite is borne or implemented. In this fashion, a variety of host devices can access digital photos (or other files or objects) on the camera device with the same ease that a desktop computer may access files from an FTP server, for purposes of receiving or manipulating photographic image information captured on the digital camera device.
摘要翻译：描述了一种用于向便携式间歇连接设备（如数码相机设备）提供类似FTP的服务器功能的方法。使用XML语法，支持类似FTP的照片服务功能的照片服务协议套件被并入到数码相机设备（或其他便携式设备）中，使得该设备上的数字图像（或其他文件）可以容易地被访问各种不同的主机超过标准协议。如果需要，可以采用标准（例如，通用）FTP而不是照片服务协议。通常可用的所有主机包括可以承载照片服务协议的工业标准TCP / IP协议的实现。因此，没有主机需要拥有专有的一次性解决方案来承担照片服务协议。无论照相机装置附加什么主机，以及无论如何承载或实现单个行业标准协议组，照相机设备在照片服务协议级别都以相同的方式运作。以这种方式，各种主机设备可以访问相机设备上的数字照片（或其他文件或对象），同样容易，桌面计算机可以从FTP服务器访问文件，以便接收或操纵捕获的摄影图像信息在数码相机设备上。

5. 发明授权

US07372485B1 Digital camera device and methodology for distributed processing and wireless transmission of digital images 有权
标题翻译：用于分布式处理和数字图像无线传输的数码相机设备和方法
公开(公告)号：US07372485B1
公开(公告)日：2008-05-13
申请号：US09434703
申请日：1999-11-05
申请人： Eric O. Bodnar , Shekhar Kirani , Venkat V. Easwar , Philippe R. Kahn , Sonia Lee Kahn
发明人： Eric O. Bodnar , Shekhar Kirani , Venkat V. Easwar , Philippe R. Kahn , Sonia Lee Kahn
IPC分类号： H04N9/68 , H04N7/12
CPC分类号： G06T9/007
摘要： A digital imaging system is described that provides techniques for reducing the amount of processing power required by a given digital camera device and for reducing the bandwidth required for transmitting image information to a target platform. The system defers and/or distributes the processing between the digital imager (i.e., digital camera itself) and the target platform that the digital imager will ultimately be connected to. In this manner, the system is able to decrease the actual computation that occurs at the digital imager. Instead, the system only performs a partial computation at the digital imager device and completes the computation somewhere else, such as at a target computing device (e.g., desktop computer) where time and size are not an issue (relative to the imager). By deferring resource-intensive computations, the present invention substantially reduces the processor requirements and concomitant battery requirements for digital cameras. Further, by adopting an image strategy optimized for compression (compressed luminosity record), the present invention decreases the bandwidth requirements for transmitting images, thereby facilitating the wireless transmission of digital camera images.
摘要翻译：描述了一种数字成像系统，其提供用于减少给定的数码相机设备所需的处理能力的量并减少将图像信息传输到目标平台所需的带宽的技术。该系统在数字成像器（即，数字照相机本身）和数字成像器最终将连接到的目标平台之间延迟和/或分发处理。以这种方式，系统能够减少在数字成像器处发生的实际计算。相反，该系统仅在数字成像器设备处执行部分计算，并且在诸如在时间和大小不是问题（相对于成像器）的目标计算设备（例如，台式计算机）处的其它地方完成计算。通过推迟资源密集型计算，本发明大大降低了数字照相机的处理器要求和伴随的电池要求。此外，通过采用针对压缩（压缩发光度记录）优化的图像策略，本发明降低了发送图像的带宽要求，从而有助于数字照相机图像的无线传输。

6. 发明授权

US08212893B2 Digital camera device and methodology for distributed processing and wireless transmission of digital images 有权
标题翻译：用于分布式处理和数字图像无线传输的数码相机设备和方法
公开(公告)号：US08212893B2
公开(公告)日：2012-07-03
申请号：US12119491
申请日：2008-05-12
申请人： Eric O. Bodnar , Shekhar Kirani , Venkat V. Easwar , Philippe R. Kahn , Sonia Lee Kahn
发明人： Eric O. Bodnar , Shekhar Kirani , Venkat V. Easwar , Philippe R. Kahn , Sonia Lee Kahn
IPC分类号： H04N9/68 , H04N7/12
CPC分类号： H04N5/23229 , H04N5/232
摘要： A digital imaging system is described that provides techniques for reducing the amount of processing power required by a given digital camera device and for reducing the bandwidth required for transmitting image information to a target platform. The system defers and/or distributes the processing between the digital imager (i.e., digital camera itself) and the target platform that the digital imager will ultimately be connected to. In this manner, the system is able to decrease the actual computation that occurs at the digital imager. Instead, the system only performs a partial computation at the digital imager device and completes the computation somewhere else, such as at a target computing device (e.g., desktop computer) where time and size are not an issue (relative to the imager). By deferring resource-intensive computations, the present invention substantially reduces the processor requirements and concomitant battery requirements for digital cameras. Further, by adopting an image strategy optimized for compression (compressed luminosity record), the present invention decreases the bandwidth requirements for transmitting images, thereby facilitating the wireless transmission of digital camera images.
摘要翻译：描述了一种数字成像系统，其提供用于减少给定的数码相机设备所需的处理能力的量并减少将图像信息传送到目标平台所需的带宽的技术。该系统在数字成像器（即，数字照相机本身）和数字成像器最终将连接到的目标平台之间延迟和/或分发处理。以这种方式，系统能够减少在数字成像器处发生的实际计算。相反，该系统仅在数字成像器设备处执行部分计算，并且在诸如在时间和大小不是问题（相对于成像器）的目标计算设备（例如，台式计算机）处的其它地方完成计算。通过推迟资源密集型计算，本发明大大降低了数字照相机的处理器要求和伴随的电池要求。此外，通过采用针对压缩（压缩发光度记录）优化的图像策略，本发明降低了发送图像的带宽要求，从而有助于数字照相机图像的无线传输。

7. 发明申请

US20090033752A1 Digital Camera Device and Methodology for Distributed Processing and Wireless Transmission of Digital Images 有权
标题翻译：数字相机设备和数字图像分布式处理和无线传输方法
公开(公告)号：US20090033752A1
公开(公告)日：2009-02-05
申请号：US12119491
申请日：2008-05-12
申请人： Eric O. Bodnar , Shekhar Kirani , Venkat V. Easwar , Philippe R. Kahn , Sonia Lee Kahn
发明人： Eric O. Bodnar , Shekhar Kirani , Venkat V. Easwar , Philippe R. Kahn , Sonia Lee Kahn
IPC分类号： H04N5/232
CPC分类号： H04N5/23229 , H04N5/232
摘要： A digital imaging system is described that provides techniques for reducing the amount of processing power required by a given digital camera device and for reducing the bandwidth required for transmitting image information to a target platform. The system defers and/or distributes the processing between the digital imager (i.e., digital camera itself) and the target platform that the digital imager will ultimately be connected to. In this manner, the system is able to decrease the actual computation that occurs at the digital imager. Instead, the system only performs a partial computation at the digital imager device and completes the computation somewhere else, such as at a target computing device (e.g., desktop computer) where time and size are not an issue (relative to the imager). By deferring resource-intensive computations, the present invention substantially reduces the processor requirements and concomitant battery requirements for digital cameras. Further, by adopting an image strategy optimized for compression (compressed luminosity record), the present invention decreases the bandwidth requirements for transmitting images, thereby facilitating the wireless transmission of digital camera images.
摘要翻译：描述了一种数字成像系统，其提供用于减少给定的数码相机设备所需的处理能力的量并减少将图像信息传送到目标平台所需的带宽的技术。该系统在数字成像器（即，数字照相机本身）和数字成像器最终将连接到的目标平台之间延迟和/或分发处理。以这种方式，系统能够减少在数字成像器处发生的实际计算。相反，该系统仅在数字成像器设备处执行部分计算，并且在诸如在时间和大小不是问题（相对于成像器）的目标计算设备（例如，台式计算机）处的其它地方完成计算。通过推迟资源密集型计算，本发明大大降低了数字照相机的处理器要求和伴随的电池要求。此外，通过采用针对压缩（压缩发光度记录）优化的图像策略，本发明降低了发送图像的带宽要求，从而有助于数字照相机图像的无线传输。

8. 发明授权

US06825876B1 Digital camera device with methodology for efficient color conversion 有权
标题翻译：具有高效颜色转换方法的数码相机设备
公开(公告)号：US06825876B1
公开(公告)日：2004-11-30
申请号：US09489511
申请日：2000-01-21
申请人： Venkat V. Easwar , Eric O. Bodnar , Shekhar Kirani , Philippe R. Kahn , Sonia Lee Kahn
发明人： Venkat V. Easwar , Eric O. Bodnar , Shekhar Kirani , Philippe R. Kahn , Sonia Lee Kahn
IPC分类号： H04N968
CPC分类号： G06T9/007
摘要： A digital imaging system is described that provides techniques for reducing the amount of processing power required by a given digital camera device and for reducing the bandwidth required for transmitting image information to a target platform. The system defers and/or distributes the processing between the digital imager (i.e., digital camera itself) and the target platform that the digital imager will ultimately be connected to. The system only performs a partial computation at the digital imager device and completes the computation somewhere else, such as at a target computing device (e.g., desktop computer) where time and size are not an issue (relative to the imager). This image processing technique employs an efficient color conversion process, using a GUV color space. After an RGB mosaic (image) is captured, the image may be “companded” or quantized by representing it with less bits (e.g., companding from 10 bits to 8 bits). The image is then mapped from RGB color space to GUV color space, using an RGB-to-GUV transformation. Once converted into GUV color space, the image may now be compressed, for instance using wavelet transform-based compression, and then transmitted, using wireless or wire-line transfer, to a target platform (e.g., desktop or server computer). At the target platform, the GUV information may be restored in a non-compressed format and then further processed into a desired representation (e.g., standard format, such as JPEG). In this fashion, the GUV-based methodology avoids the inefficiency of remaining in RGB color space and avoids the computational complexity of converting to YUV color space, yet retains the benefits associated with YUV color space (e.g., de-correlation of image information).
摘要翻译：描述了一种数字成像系统，其提供用于减少给定的数码相机设备所需的处理能力的量并减少将图像信息传送到目标平台所需的带宽的技术。该系统在数字成像器（即，数字照相机本身）和数字成像器最终将连接到的目标平台之间延迟和/或分发处理。该系统仅在数字成像器设备处执行部分计算，并且完成其它地方的计算，例如在时间和大小不是问题（相对于成像器）的目标计算设备（例如台式计算机）处。该图像处理技术使用有效的颜色转换处理，使用GUV颜色空间。在捕获RGB马赛克（图像）之后，可以通过用较少的比特（例如，从10比特到8比特的压缩比例）来表示图像来“压缩”或量化图像。然后，使用RGB到GUV变换，将图像从RGB颜色空间映射到GUV颜色空间。一旦转换成GUV颜色空间，图像现在可以被压缩，例如使用基于小波变换的压缩，然后使用无线或有线传输方式传送到目标平台（例如桌面或服务器计算机）。在目标平台上，可以以非压缩格式还原GUV信息，然后进一步处理为期望的表示（例如，标准格式，例如JPEG）。以这种方式，基于GUV的方法避免了RGB颜色空间中的残留效率低下，避免了转换为YUV色彩空间的计算复杂度，同时保留了与YUV色彩空间相关的优点（例如图像信息的去相关）。

9. 发明授权

US07724281B2 Device facilitating efficient transfer of digital content from media capture device 有权
标题翻译：促进数字内容从媒体捕获设备的有效传输的设备
公开(公告)号：US07724281B2
公开(公告)日：2010-05-25
申请号：US10068254
申请日：2002-02-04
申请人： Alan M. Vale , Kurt Dammermann , Robin G. Petravic , Timothy W. Genske , William G. Swinton , Eric O. Bodnar
发明人： Alan M. Vale , Kurt Dammermann , Robin G. Petravic , Timothy W. Genske , William G. Swinton , Eric O. Bodnar
IPC分类号： H04N5/225 , H04N5/228
CPC分类号： H04N1/00477 , H04N1/00204 , H04N1/00488 , H04N1/0049 , H04N2101/00 , H04N2201/0015 , H04N2201/0041 , H04N2201/0084
摘要： A method facilitating the transfer of information from a media or data capture device to a larger device while providing valuable feedback about the transfer is described. A transfer device including a simple user interface that can be easily implemented on a media or data capture device provides feedback about the transfer operation, enabling the user to take action when necessary. For example, the user is advised if the transfer is complete or, alternatively, that the transfer has failed and needs to redone. Feedback is provided by visual signals and may also be accompanied by audible signals. All necessary transfer functionality is included on the media capture device, thereby avoiding the requirement for dedicated software on a host (or pipeline) device, such as a cellular phone. This expands the number of pipeline devices that can be utilized with particular media capture devices. As long as there is a correct interface between the data capture device and the pipeline device, all the necessary transfer functionality can be included in the data capture device.
摘要翻译：描述了一种便于将信息从媒体或数据捕获设备传送到较大设备的方法，同时提供关于传送的有价值的反馈。包括可以容易地在媒体或数据捕获设备上实现的简单用户界面的传送设备提供关于传送操作的反馈，使得用户能够在必要时采取行动。例如，如果传输完成，或者传输失败并需要重做，建议用户。反馈由视觉信号提供，也可能伴随着可听信号。所有必要的传送功能都包含在媒体捕获设备中，从而避免了在诸如蜂窝电话的主机（或管线）设备上的专用软件的需求。这扩展了可以与特定媒体捕获设备一起使用的流水线设备的数量。只要在数据采集设备和流水线设备之间存在正确的接口，所有必要的传输功能就可以包含在数据采集设备中。

10. 发明申请

US20110128403A1 Digital Camera Device Providing Improved Methodology for Rapidly Taking Successive Pictures 有权
标题翻译：数码相机设备提供改进的方法来快速拍摄连续的图片
公开(公告)号：US20110128403A1
公开(公告)日：2011-06-02
申请号：US12961397
申请日：2010-12-06
申请人： Venkat V. Easwar , Eric O. Bodnar
发明人： Venkat V. Easwar , Eric O. Bodnar
IPC分类号： G06K9/46 , H04N5/228
CPC分类号： G06T9/007 , H04N1/2112 , H04N1/46 , H04N1/64 , H04N2201/3247
摘要： An in-camera two-stage compression implementation is described that reduces the latency between snapshots to a fraction of that otherwise required by other systems that either process complete compression following each snapshot or that incorporate heavy, bulky, and expensive RAM hardware capable of maintaining several raw luminosity records (unprocessed file containing a digital image). In the 1st stage compression the raw luminosity record is quickly, yet partially, compressed to available RAM buffer space to allow a user to expeditiously capture a succeeding image. When the higher-priority processes, the user shooting pictures, and stage one compression subside, a 2nd stage compression, which is slower but more effective, decompresses the earlier partially-compressed images, and re-compresses them for saving in flash memory until they are distributed to a remote platform to be finally converted to the JPEG2000 format.
摘要翻译：描述了一种相机内两级压缩实现，将快照之间的延迟减少到其他系统要求的一小部分，这些系统在每个快照之后处理完整的压缩，或者包含重，体积庞大，昂贵的RAM硬件，能够维护几个原始亮度记录（包含数字图像的未处理文件）。在第一阶段压缩中，原始光度记录快速但部分地被压缩到可用的RAM缓冲空间，以允许用户快速捕获后续图像。当优先级较高的进程，用户拍摄图片并进行一级压缩时，第二级压缩（其速度较慢但更有效）对先前的部分压缩图像进行解压缩，并重新压缩它们以保存在闪存中，直到它们分发到远程平台，最终转换成JPEG2000格式。

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