Automatic Image Deletion

摘要

An apparatus and method including determining if a copy of an image file of an image has been transmitted from an apparatus as a backup copy of the image file; determining if the image file has predetermined metadata based upon a user handling or manipulating the image file after the image was captured by the apparatus; and automatically deleting the image from the apparatus based upon both the image file having been determined to have been transmitted from the apparatus as the backup copy of the image file, and the image file having been determined to not have the predetermined metadata based upon the user handling or manipulating the image file after the image was captured by the apparatus.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: automatic deletion of at least one image from the at least one memory when:
a copy of an image file of the image is determined to have been transmitted from the apparatus as a backup copy of the image file, andthe image file is determined to not have predetermined metadata based upon a user handling or manipulating the image file after the image was captured by the apparatus,where the automatic deletion does not occur when the copy of the image file has not been transmitted from the apparatus as a backup copy of the image, and where the automatic deletion does not occur when the image file has the predetermined metadata based upon the user handling or manipulating the image file after the image was captured by the apparatus.