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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2007
William O. Camp, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Mark G. Kokes, Raleigh, NC (US);
Toby J. Bowen, Durham, NC (US);
Walter M. Marcinkiewicz, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
William O. Camp, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Mark G. Kokes, Raleigh, NC (US);
Toby J. Bowen, Durham, NC (US);
Walter M. Marcinkiewicz, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Lund, SE;
Abstract
Image data for a digital photograph is segmented into a first portion and a second portion. The image data of the second portion is processed to have a quality lower than the image data of the first portion. An image file for the scene is stored where the image file contains image data corresponding to the first and second portions so that the image file has a high quality portion and a low quality portion.