Patent ID: 7782384
Filing Date: 2010-08-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A handheld digital camera, comprising: a processor; a digital memory in communication with the processor; a view-screen in communication with the processor and configured to present images from the field-of-view of the camera; a plurality of image files stored in the digital memory; and a user interface executable by the processor and configured to enable selection of a stored image file from the plurality of image files, the interface configured (a) to generate an overlay by automatically detecting and removing a predominate color from the selected image file resulting in at least one void in the resulting overlay coinciding with a location in the selected image file where the predominate color resided, and (b) to depict the resulting overlay on the view-screen in conjunction with live image data corresponding to the field-of-view of the camera such that the image data on the view-screen is shown through the void of the resulting overlay.