APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSERTING ADDITION DATA IN IMAGE FILE ON ELECTRONIC DEVICE

摘要

An apparatus and a method for inserting additional information into an image file in an electronic appliance are provided to create various kinds of multimedia data through an information insertion operation into the image file. When an event for the insertion of additional information into an image file occurs, an identification code representing the insertion of the additional information is recorded in a header of the image file(401). The additional information is inserted into the end portion of the image file(407). The image file has a joint photographic coding experts group(JPEG) format. The header is one of a plurality of headers existing in the JPEG file. The header includes at least one of a header identifier, a header length, the identification code, and the position of the addition information.