[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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