Pictures using voice commands and automatic upload

摘要

A system and method is disclosed for enabling user friendly interaction with a camera system. Specifically, the inventive system and method has several aspects to improve the interaction with a camera system, including voice recognition, gaze tracking, touch sensitive inputs and others. The voice recognition unit is operable for, among other things, receiving multiple different voice commands, recognizing the vocal commands, associating the different voice commands to one camera command and controlling at least some aspect of the digital camera operation in response to these voice commands. The gaze tracking unit is operable for, among other things, determining the location on the viewfinder image that the user is gazing upon. One aspect of the touch sensitive inputs provides that the touch sensitive pad is mouse-like and is operable for, among other things, receiving user touch inputs to control at least some aspect of the camera operation. Another aspect of the disclosed invention provides for gesture recognition to be used to interface with and control the camera system.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
(a) a camera that is operable to take and store pictures, and that includes: (i) a lens, (ii) an image sensor, (iii) at least two microphones, (iv) a voice recognizer, (v) a camera controller, (vi) a wireless network interface, and (vii) a touch sensitive display; (b) the camera controller including a control program having instructions to control and respond to the voice recognizer; (c) the two microphones oriented differently on the camera and configured to receive and detect sound signals emanating from around the camera; (d) a detector coupled to the at least two microphones and configured to receive, process and combine sound signals detected at the microphones, and to input the sounds to the voice recognizer; (e) wherein the controller is configured to:
(i) cause the system to take a picture and store the picture in local memory in the camera;(ii) automatically upload a picture stored in the local memory to a user-instructed location at an internet picture hosting website via the wireless network interface, but only if predetermined conditions are met, the predetermined conditions including at least the camera controller receiving:
(1) an indication from the wireless network interface that the system can make an internet connection via the wireless network interface; and(2) an indication from the local memory that a user has elected an option to designate at least one picture stored in local memory to be uploaded to the internet picture hosting website; and(iii) launch a browser to connect to and use the services at the internet picture hosting website.