Patent Document ID: 20090196523
Application ID: 12360180
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for generating a thumbnail image, comprising: (a) decoding an input image; (b) measuring an Out-Of-Focus (OOF) degree of the decoded image; (c) determining whether or not the decoded image includes EXchangeable Image File (EXIF) information about the input image; (d) extracting a thumbnail image from the EXIF information and applying as an OOF effect to the thumbnail image in proportion to the measured degree of OOF in (b), in a presence of the EXIF information as determined in (c); and (e) generating a thumbnail image by scaling down the decoded image at a down scaler and applying an OOF effect to the thumbnail image in proportion to the measured degree of OOF in (b), in an absence of the EXIF information as determined in (c).