[OT] Anyone ever going to stop this?
Michael Rueger
michael at squeakland.org
Fri Jul 30 08:06:02 UTC 2004
Hi all,
I always thought certain patents are bulls..., but this comes pretty
close to patenting the "expansion and contraction of biological tissue
as a means to acquire bio-chemical energy supply and exhaust exchange"
And it sounds a lot like what Exobox did quite a few years ago.
If only John Edwards was right: Hope is on the way
(OK, for those not "blessed" with US TV coverage, it's from his (vice
president hopeful) democratic convention speech)
Michael
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Organizing and displaying photographs based on time
Abstract
A technique is provided for organizing and displaying digital
photographs based on time. The technique includes inputting data
representing a photograph and storing the data as a photograph image
file. The technique then identifies the manner in which the photograph
image file stores time information (such as date and time of day). For
instance, the technique determines whether the time information is
digitally encoded in the image file, or whether it is embedded within
the image data itself. The technique next includes extracting the time
information from the photograph image file using a technique appropriate
to the identified manner in which the time information is stored, to
produce extracted time information. The photographs are then inserted
into a time sequence based on the extracted time information, and
presented on a calendar display at a location representative of the
chronological placement of the photograph within the time sequence.
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