Digital photo frame with dial-a-tag functionality
View Patent ↗A digital photo frame, including a memory for storing a plurality of digital photos, and tags associated with the digital photos, where a tag for a digital photo corresponds to an object appearing in the digital photo, a screen for displaying the digital photos, an interface for making connection with a communicator, wherein the communicator includes a storage for storing a contact list of phone numbers for objects, and a controller, coupled with the memory and the interface, for rendering one of the plurality of digital photos on the screen, and for instructing the communicator via the interface (i) to identify the phone number of a selected object, and (ii) to dial the identified phone number, in response to user activation of a tag associated with the rendered digital photo and corresponding to the selected object.
1. A digital photo frame, comprising:
a memory for storing a plurality of digital photos, and tags associated with the digital photos, where a tag for a digital photo corresponds to an object appearing in the digital photo;
a screen for displaying the digital photos;
an interface for making connection with a communicator, wherein the communicator comprises a storage for storing a contact list of phone numbers for objects; and
a controller, coupled with said memory and said interface, for rendering one of the plurality of digital photos on said screen, and for instructing the communicator via said interface (i) to identify the phone number of a selected object, and (ii) to dial the identified phone number, in response to user activation of a tag associated with the rendered digital photo and corresponding to the selected object.
2. The digital photo frame of claim 1 wherein tags correspond to objects taken from the group consisting of people, business establishments, organizations, governments and municipalities, geographical sites, entertainment services and information services.
3. The digital photo frame of claim 1 where said interface makes an electrical connection with the communicator.
4. The digital photo frame of claim 1 wherein said interface makes a wireless connection with the communicator.
5. The digital photo frame of claim 4 wherein the wireless connection is a BlueTooth connection.
6. The digital photo frame of claim 4 wherein the wireless connections is a WiFi connection.
7. The digital photo frame of claim 1 wherein said controller renders any of a plurality of digital videos on said screen, wherein one or more tags are associated with the plurality of digital videos, and wherein said controller instructs the communicator to make a phone call to a selected object, in response to user activation of a tag associated with a rendered digital video and corresponding to the selected object.
8. The digital photo frame of claim 1 wherein said screen comprises a touch-sensitive screen, and wherein user activation of a tag corresponding to the selected object comprises the user touching said touch-sensitive screen at a location on said touch-sensitive screen where the selected object appears in the rendered digital photo.
9. The digital photo frame of claim 1 further comprising a user interface with one or more buttons for advancing through tags associated with the rendered digital photo, and for activating one of these tags.