Say Cheese! Apple patent application lets the camera select the best shot

13. Nathan_ingx posted on 14 Feb 2013, 07:35 15

First of all, i no longer like iPhone so Alan, the answer to your question is "no, i would not like it"
Second, i won't trust a device to pick the best photo out of the lot, although the algorithm may read right, it's not all that. I see it when the photo is good.
Thirdly, (let's come back to your topic Wendy) the game Apple is playing with patents is not the way technology should work.
Apple patents everything they think is original. Sadly, the word "original" is no longer how Apple works. It's the green paper they want to squeeze out of every point they can make.

43. tahnik posted on 15 Feb 2013, 00:18 2

bitch pls...my w995 had this feature...

7. joseph98 posted on 14 Feb 2013, 07:20 16

Yes in galaxy note II, we have a feature called best photos where the phone will take a burst 8 images then the phone will suggest the best picture out of the 8 so you can either go with phone suggestions or pick the one you like the most to be saved while the other 7 pictures will be automatically deleted from your phone. OK I can see samsung removing this feature once apple is granted the patent and then sue samsung in the near future.

19. rickywinataa posted on 14 Feb 2013, 08:20 8

i don't think apple would be able to do that, samsung has used the feature since Q2 '12 and apple started to file the patent since Q3 '12.

34. joseph98 posted on 14 Feb 2013, 14:09 0

But the news said the co-pending filing started in 2009 which mean samsung is in troubled again along with all other phone manufacturers that uses this feature without paying apple.

The application was first filed in October 2012 as part of another co-pending filing from 2009, and lists Ralph Brunner, Nikhil Bhogal and James David Batson as the inventors.

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35. rallyguy posted on 14 Feb 2013, 14:36 0

But the way the US patent office works is, it's given to the first person to apply for the patent, NOT the person who actually creates it first. So if Samsung did not patent their technology then Apple may have a chance to patent it, and sue Samsung again because Apple will claim it as theirs.

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42. bipinm posted on 14 Feb 2013, 23:16 0

sony ericsson k790 had that feature...I think that was the first phone to have that feature...the phone take 9 pics and let the user decidewhich photos have to be saved...that was a noce feature...And apple cant sue anyone with that patent...

15. Droid_X_Doug posted on 14 Feb 2013, 07:54 11

Yes, it is available in numerous other applications. joseph gives an example. Dedicated cameras have similar 'best-photo' pre-programmed scene modes that function almost exactly as described in the iApplication.

Hopefully, the USPTO rejects the iApplication as invalid on prior art grounds.

17. Droid_X_Doug posted on 14 Feb 2013, 08:14 0

It appears that the 2009 application hasn't issued, so USPTO may be having heartburn with Apple. Sometimes, you get an examiner who has an interest (photography) in the subject matter. That would seem to be an iNightmare scenario for Apple - an examiner with good technical subject matter expertise.

24. rusticguy posted on 14 Feb 2013, 09:39 4

USPTO == US Patent Troll's Office.

40. xtremesv posted on 14 Feb 2013, 20:10 0

it's different, now your iPhone will tell you: "you're shooting them wrong!"

5. tech2 posted on 14 Feb 2013, 07:18 1

true. Many phones already have this feature. Their theory behind selecting the best image maybe different than that of Apple's but the idea of selecting the best picture is already present amongst several phones.

How on earth they get patent everytime they file for one ? when there is similar technology which is already implemented, whereas they haven't even introduced or implemented the technology !

12. RaKithAPeiRiZ posted on 14 Feb 2013, 07:34 10

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31. lolioslol (banned) posted on 14 Feb 2013, 12:13 3

You're not familiar with apple and how they "innovate" (STEAL) are you?

16. Droid_X_Doug posted on 14 Feb 2013, 08:03 12

Just because a feature is implemented in a different way in iOS does not make it patentable. My Canon PowerShot G9 (circa 2005?) does burst mode where multiple pics are taken with aperture and shutter speed selected by the camera. Adding dynamic range into the mix is not in-and-of-itself unique and innovative.

There is too much prior art around that can invalidate any patent that iApple might be able to game out of the USPTO.

25. rusticguy posted on 14 Feb 2013, 09:42 1

Yea it's something like patenting how to use the tissue paper to wipe the @rse in a particular way. Who knows that's next from Apple ...

18. Droid_X_Doug posted on 14 Feb 2013, 08:17 2

I think you meant to say iFlop.

26. rusticguy posted on 14 Feb 2013, 10:05 5

myxpyxtyx cloned :)

32. lolioslol (banned) posted on 14 Feb 2013, 12:14 1

That is a source of pride for you? Your life must suck then if that's something to be proud of.

33. GeekMovement posted on 14 Feb 2013, 13:47 1

Kind of sad that they don't realize Apple is playing catch up with Android. We can already enjoy these similar features only better because it doesn't select the best photo for us, WE get to select the best photo. Apple fans are always annoyingly blinded.

41. darkdroid posted on 14 Feb 2013, 22:47 0

keep paying premium for 5 year old tech "trollking"

37. rgxVOiD posted on 14 Feb 2013, 16:30 1

My Sony Ericsson K790i came out in 2006 does that as well