Editing and browsing images for virtual cameras

Abstract

Digital imaging including creating, in a virtual camera, an unedited image request for an unedited digital image; editing the unedited image request, producing an edited image request for an edited image; communicating the edited image request to a web site for imaging for virtual cameras; receiving in the virtual camera, the edited digital image from the web site; and displaying the edited digital image on a display device of a user interface of the virtual camera. Digital imaging including identifying a browsing image request data element from among image request data elements of an image request data structure; and creating, in dependence upon the identified browsing image request data element, a multiplicity of image requests for digital images, wherein values of the browsing image request data elements vary among the image requests.

Description

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention[0002] The field of the invention is virtual cameras for digital imaging, or, more specifically, methods, computer program products, and products for making and using virtual cameras to create, edit, and browse digital images.[0003] 2. Description of the Related Art[0004] The state of the art of digital photography is that creation of a snapshot using a traditional camera, either a digital camera or a film camera, requires that a camera be physically present near the subject to be photographed at the time when the photograph is to be taken. The requirement for physical presence stems from the need to illuminate a physical imaging device with light reflected from a subject to be photographed or imaged. Physical imaging devices include, for example, charge coupled devices for digital cameras and film in film cameras. Because of the need to illuminate an imaging device with light actually reflected from the subject to be imaged, there is no way in curren...

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Benefits of technology

0018] FIG. 10 is a control flow diagram illustrating method aspects of exemplary embodiments of virtual cameras.

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Problems solved by technology

Because of the need to illuminate an imaging device with light actually reflected from the subject to be imaged, there is no way in current art to create a snapshot of a subject that is spatially out of view of th

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