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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003
Filed:
May. 03, 1999
Stephen Savitzky, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory Wolff, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rithy K. Roth, Newark, CA (US);
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image server is captures images from a digital camera. When the image storage device is removed from the camera and placed into a port of the image server, the image server automatically detects the image storage device and downloads the images stored thereon, adding various data elements, such as a camera ID, data of capture, and the like. Once the image is stored in the image server, the image server generates an HTML page that references the new image, or adds a new reference to an existing HTML page. The HTML pages are made available to web browsers that are able to access the image server and the images are thus presented, with optional captions and titles. The images can be stored on the image server and be searched by text (i.e., from the captions or titles) or by image features.