Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Glenn Peter Hall

David Neil Slatter

Richard Anthony Lawrence

Andrew Arthur Hunter

David Arthur Grosvenor

David Mark Frohlich

Systems and methods of producing video data and/or audio-photos from a static digital image are disclosed. One such method, among others, comprises receiving input from a user indicating sequentially, in real time, a plurality of regions of the static digital image. The method also includes processing the user input to determine the visual content of each of a sequence of video frames and generating output data representative of the sequence of video frames. The sequence and composition of the video frames are determined such that the visual content of the video frames is taken from the static digital image. For each region of the static image indicated by the user, a video frame is composed such that the said region occupies a substantial part of the video frame. The sequence of video frames shows the regions indicated by the user in sequential correspondence with the sequence in which the user indicated the regions and substantially in pace with the time in which the user indicated the regions.

Producing video and audio-photos from a static digital image

A wearable computing apparatus includes a processor; a device for presenting information from the processor to a user, and a device for providing user input to the processor in response to the information presented to the user. The device is adapted to be activated wholly or partly by a foot of the user.

Foot activated user interface

An image capture detection system including a short range radio transmitter () and a short range radio receiver and decoder () installed in or on an image capture device (). The system further comprises a remote detection unit () also comprising a short range radio transmitter () and a short range radio receiver and decoder (). In use, the remote detection unit () transmits intermittent query signals () which are received by the receiver () in the image capture device () when the remote detection unit () is within a predetermined distance or range thereof. In response to receipt of the query signals (), the transmitter () in the image capture device () is arranged to transmit an indicator signal () which is received by the remote detection unit (). The remote detection unit () is arranged to generate a warning signal in response to receipt of the indicator signal (().

Environmental cameras

A computing apparatus comprises a processor unitand a foot control unitin addition to a device for presenting information to a user such as a microdisplay. Movement of the foot, which drives operation of a selection element, provides user input to the processor unit. The foot control unit contains a position sensorthat detects position relative to a reference unitin the processor unitA stream of relative position data is used to indicate alternative options at the information presentation device. Selection may be carried out by various alternative methods in different embodiments &#x2014;if the position sensoris also an orientation sensor, this may be by rotation of the foot. This arrangement is particularly suitable for a wearable computing apparatus.

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