Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Hewlett-packard Company

Amy E Battles

Donald J Stavely

Sarah Jean Barrios

Robert Paul Cazier

Mark John Bianchi

K Douglas Gennetten

Miles Kevin Thorland

Daniel J Byrne

Kenneth Jay Hall

James C Dow

Dan L Dalton

David Kay Campbell

Jason E Yost

Robert E Sobol

Kenneth Ross Stockton

Daniel Maack Bloom

Gregory V Hofer

Murray Dean Craig

David J Staudacher

James W Owens

Amol Subhash Pandit

Norman Conrad Pyle

Robert F Yockey

Kathy Louise Miner

Lisa Marie Tucker

Heather Noel Bean

Shanshan Li

Geoffrey Charles Dowd

Guy De Warrenne Bruce Adams

James S Voss

Wilfred Francis Brake

Oscar R Herrera E

Cordell Ratzlaff

Shelley I Moore

John Mick

Lisa K Roberts

Karen E Williams

Susan E Manson

Tu Jungpin

Sarah J Schwartz

Chao-Chien Chen

Ben Fineman

Joel Bennett Lamer

A method of personalizing an interface of a portable electronic device comprises the steps of interfacing the portable electronic device to a workstation, modifying the existing version of the user interface so as to define a personalized version of the user interface, transferring information defining the personalized version of the user interface from the workstation to the portable electronic device, and implementing the personalized version of the user interface on the portable electronic device.

System and method of personalizing a user interface of a portable electronic device

Multiple uncompressed digital images, each at a different exposure, may be captured automatically in response to an image capture request. The set of uncompressed digital images may be stored as a single data object and manipulated to produce a final digital image.

Digital image production method and apparatus

A method of analyzing images captured using an imaging device is provided herein. The analysis provides suggestions for changing a parameter of the imaging device during subsequent image capture.

System and method for analyzing a digital image

A camera includes a bracketing logic module that varies, based on a previously-received user input and for each shot of a plurality of bracketed shots for a scene to be imaged, one or more of a plurality of different image-capture parameters, wherein, the bracketing logic module varies the one or more of the plurality of different image-capture parameters based on previously-input user selections of scene-bracketing for the scene to be imaged.

Image-capture parameter variation

Viewing devices are disclosed herein. One embodiment of a viewing device is a digital camera having at least one function. And embodiment of the digital camera comprises a touch pad, wherein in which a stylus that is moved relative to the touch pad is detectable by the digital camera. The speed at which the function is performed corresponds to the speed that the stylus is moved relative to the touch pad.

Viewing device having a touch pad

A digital imaging device produces and stores multiple video streams from a single imaging sensor array. The stored video streams may be post-processed using video editing software to create a combined video presentation.

Apparatus and method for producing and storing multiple video streams

A method for providing photography advice, such as in the use of a camera, is provided. The method includes storing image attributes associated with a plurality of images captured by the camera. Camera settings associated with the captured images are also stored. At least one of a plurality of photography pointers is provided based on the stored image attributes and the stored camera settings.

Photography advice based on captured image attributes and camera settings

Methods of calculating pixel values representative of a scene are disclosed herein. One embodiment of the method comprises focusing light representative of the scene onto a photosensor for a period of time using at least one exposure setting, wherein the photosensor has a plurality of pixels. Numeric values corresponding to the intensity of light received by each of the pixels during the period are generated. At least one exposure setting is changed and pixel values are generated by the photosensor based on the changed at least one exposure setting are calculated. The number of calculated pixel values that are greater than a first preselected value are then determined.

Devices and methods for calculating pixel values representative of a scene

A method of processing a plurality of digital images arranged in a preset order in a digital imaging device in response to user input includes determining a user scrolling direction in response to user scrolling inputs, at least partially deleting a displayed image in response to a user image deletion input, and based upon the determined scrolling direction, displaying at least a portion of the next image in the scrolling direction after the deleted image unless the deleted image was the first or last image in the preset order.

System and method for managing digital images

A digital imaging device automatically detects that a subject is too close to the device for acceptable focus to be achieved and informs the user, takes automatic corrective action, or both.

Method and apparatus for coping with condition in which subject is too close to digital imaging device for acceptable focus

A system and method for assisting in tone composition that comprises receiving light information corresponding to light detected by a plurality of pixels, analyzing the light information to determine a light value for each of the plurality of pixels, determining contour information, the contour information corresponding to a plurality of groups of adjacent pixels, wherein each group of adjacent pixels is characterized by a unique predetermined range of light values, and communicating the contour information to a display.

System and method for tone composition

A system and method for displaying image composition templates with preview images is described. One embodiment comprises analyzing at least one characteristic of a preview image, determining a nature of the preview image based upon the analyzed characteristic, selecting an image composition template corresponding to the determined nature of the preview image and displaying the selected image composition template concurrently with the preview image.

System and method for displaying an image composition template

A user interface illumination system provides a user with information regarding the operation of a digital camera. The system may provide a user interface for informing the user of the ability to select a particular function to be performed on the camera. The user interface has a set of input means disposed on the camera and a set of illumination sources associated with the input means. A controller controls the light-emitting characteristics of the illumination sources based upon current or available operating modes of the electronic device. For example, all input means that are operational in the current operating mode may be illuminated. The illumination may be different for different input means to suggest preferred functions to the user.

User interface illumination system

In an embodiment, a method sets an image capture device to one of a plurality of available operational modes for the image capture device. The method comprises determining an angle of pitch orientation of the image capture device, and setting the image capture device to the one of the plurality of operational modes if the angle of pitch orientation is within a predetermined angle range associated with the one of the plurality of operational modes.

System and method for setting an image capture device to an operational mode

A digital imaging device detects or tracks a user's direction of gaze. The detected direction of gaze may be used to set one or more functions in the digital imaging device, and the history of the user's direction of gaze may be stored with a captured digital image for later use by an automatic image post-processing apparatus.

Digital imaging method and apparatus using eye-tracking control

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Windsor, CO, United States of America

Amy E Battles