Communications devices and methods for single-mode and automatic media capture

Abstract

Devices are configured to capture and share media based on user touch and other interaction. Functional labels show the user the operation being undertaken for any media captured. For example, functional labels may indicate a group of receivers, type of media, media sending method, media capture or sending delay, media persistence time, discrimination type and threshold for capturing different types of media, etc., all customizable by the user or auto-generated. Media is selectively captured and broadcast to receivers in accordance with the configuration of the functional label. A user may engage the device and activate the functional label through a single haptic engagement, allowing highly-specific media capture and sharing through a single touch or other action, without having to execute several discrete actions for capture, sending, formatting, notifying, deleting, storing, etc. Devices include any number of sensors to properly detect and act in accordance with the user engagement.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner, said method comprising:
 presenting at least a media on at least a display;   presenting at least a functional label on at least a pre-defined portion of said at least a display, said functional label being functionally configured to correspond to at least a receiver, said functional label being further functionally configured to capture said at least presented media while selecting said at least a receiver, said functional label being still further functionally configured to share said captured media, said at least a receiver being communicably coupled to a sender through said method; and   identifying haptic contact engagement, using at least a touch sensor, on said at least a functional label in order to select said at least a receiver, to capture said presented at least a media, and to send said captured at least a media to said at least a receiver, all in a single haptic engagement manner.   
     
     
         2 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising a step of dynamically presenting one or more functional labels for media capture controller on said at least a display, further wherein dynamically present visual media capture controllers comprise user-created and user-selected, auto generated, or selected, recently used, ranked visual media capture controllers functional labels or icons 
     
     
         3 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said haptic contact engagement is a single click. 
     
     
         4 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said haptic contact engagement is discrete. 
     
     
         5 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said haptic contact engagement is continuous. 
     
     
         6 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said media is selected from a group of media consisting of visual media, audio media, static visual media, dynamic visual media, image, photograph, video, multimedia, audio-visual media. 
     
     
         7 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method being configured to group a plurality of receivers into at least one functional label. 
     
     
         8 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method being configured to group a plurality of functional labels into at least one functional label. 
     
     
         9 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method being configured to group to set, make as default, apply, attach, associate, and select one or more functional labels into one of more groups or sets of input icons or labels. 
     
     
         10 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said at least a touch sensor is at least a media capture controller. 
     
     
         11 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising as step of sensing, said step of sensing being performed by said at least a touch sensor being at least a media capture controller, characterized in that, said at least a visual media capture controller being configured to present a single mode input label or icon or images on said at least a display in order to receive haptic contact engagement, haptic contact persistence, and haptic content release for capturing or recording said at least a media as well as for executing, invoking, or triggering of associated one or more functions. 
     
     
         12 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising a step of identifying haptic contact engagement, using at least a touch sensor, said at least a touch sensor being at least a media capture controller, characterized in that, said at least a media capture controller being configured to selectively store captured photograph in a photograph library. 
     
     
         13 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising a step of identifying haptic contact engagement, using at least a touch sensor, said at least a touch sensor being at least a media capture controller, characterized in that, said at least a media capture controller being configured to selectively store captured video in a video library. 
     
     
         14 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising a step of identifying haptic contact engagement, using at least a touch sensor, said at least a touch sensor being at least a media capture controller, characterized in that, said at least a media capture controller being configured to selectively store captured music data in a music library. 
     
     
         15 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising a step of identifying haptic contact engagement, using at least a touch sensor, said at least a touch sensor being a visual media capture controller, characterized in that, said at least a visual media capture controller being configured to end recording of said media and triggering or executing function of said at least a functional label after further identifying a further haptic contact engagement. 
     
     
         16 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising a step of recognizing type of haptic engagement of said at least a functional label, said type of haptic engagement being selected from a group of haptic engagements consisting of a single discrete haptic engagement, a double discrete haptic engagement, a plurality of discrete haptic engagements, a continuous haptic engagement, a continuous pre-defined time haptic engagement, a gesture-defined haptic engagement, an orientation-defined haptic engagement, a swipe haptic engagement, a direction-defined swipe haptic engagement, an orientation-defined swipe haptic engagement, a gesture haptic engagement, a direction-defined gesture haptic engagement, an orientation-defined gesture haptic engagement, and other haptic engagements. 
     
     
         17 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising a step of recognizing type of haptic engagement of said at least a functional label, said type of haptic engagement being selected from a group of haptic engagements consisting of a single discrete haptic engagement, a double discrete haptic engagement, a plurality of discrete haptic engagements, a continuous haptic engagement, a continuous pre-defined time haptic engagement, a gesture-defined haptic engagement, an orientation-defined haptic engagement, a swipe haptic engagement, a direction-defined swipe haptic engagement, an orientation-defined swipe haptic engagement, a gesture haptic engagement, a direction-defined gesture haptic engagement, an orientation-defined gesture haptic engagement, and other haptic engagements, characterized in that, said each function of said functional labels being defined in terms of type of haptic engagements. 
     
     
         18 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising at least a step of providing settings configurable by a user in order to invoke at least a visual media capturing mode based on said settings. 
     
     
         19 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising at least a step of providing settings configurable by a user in order to invoke at least an audio media capturing mode based on said settings. 
     
     
         20 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising at least a step of providing settings configurable by a user in order to invoke at least a multimedia media capturing mode based on said settings. 
     
     
         21 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising at least a step of providing settings configurable by a user in order to invoke at least a video preview mode based on said settings. 
     
     
         22 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising at least a step of enabling said at least a sender to page said at least a receiver correlating with said at least a functional label. 
     
     
         23 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising at least a step of enabling said at least a sender to page said at least a receiver correlating with said at least a functional label. 
     
     
         24 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method comprising at least a step of storing said at least captured media upon identifying haptic contact engagement. 
     
     
         25 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method being configured to group, said method comprising at least a step of processing instructions, said step of processing instructions comprising a further step of communicably coupling to at least a wireless signal processor, at least a power control circuit, and at least a global positioning processor. 
     
     
         26 . A method for selecting and sharing media in a single click manner as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, said method being configured to group, said method comprising at least a step of processing instructions, said step of processing instructions comprising a further step of communicably coupling to one or more types of sensors, said sensors being selected from a group of sensors consisting of accelerometer sensor, gyroscope sensor, gesture sensor, proximity sensor, direction sensor, orientation sensor, video sensor, multimedia sensor, touch sensor, audio sensor, location sensor, Bluetooth sensor, IR sensor, focus sensor, light sensor, and a global positioning sensor connected to the processor. 
     
     
         27 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner, said device comprising:
 at least an image sensor configured to present at least a media on at least a display;   at least a display configured to present at least a functional label on at least a pre-defined portion of said at least a display, said functional label being functionally configured to correspond to at least a receiver, said functional label being further functionally configured to capture said at least presented media while selecting said at least a receiver, said functional label being still further functionally configured to share said captured media, said at least a receiver being communicably coupled to a sender through said method; and   at least a touch sensor configured to identify haptic contact engagement on said at least a functional label in order to select said at least a receiver, to capture said presented at least a media, and to send said captured at least a media to said at least a receiver, all in a single haptic engagement manner.   
     
     
         28 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising means for dynamically presenting one or more functional labels for media capture controller on said at least a display, further wherein dynamically present visual media capture controllers comprise user-created and user-selected, auto generated, or selected, recently used, ranked visual media capture controllers functional labels or icons 
     
     
         29 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said haptic contact engagement is a single click. 
     
     
         30 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said haptic contact engagement is discrete. 
     
     
         31 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said haptic contact engagement is continuous. 
     
     
         32 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said media is selected from a group of media consisting of visual media, audio media, static visual media, dynamic visual media, image, photograph, video, multimedia, audio-visual media. 
     
     
         33 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising means to group a plurality of receivers into at least one functional label. 
     
     
         34 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising means to group a plurality of functional labels into at least one functional label. 
     
     
         35 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising means configured to set, make as default, apply, attach, associate, and select one or more functional labels into one of more groups or sets of input icons or labels. 
     
     
         36 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising said at least a touch sensor is at least a media capture controller. 
     
     
         37 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising said at least a touch sensor being at least a media capture controller, characterized in that, said at least a visual media capture controller is configured to present a single mode input label or icon or images on said at least a display in order to receive haptic contact engagement, haptic contact persistence, and haptic content release for capturing or recording said at least a media as well as for executing, invoking, or triggering of associated one or more functions. 
     
     
         38 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising said at least a touch sensor being at least a media capture controller, characterized in that, said at least a visual media capture controller comprises means to selective store captured photograph in a photograph library. 
     
     
         39 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising said at least a touch sensor being at least a media capture controller, characterized in that, said at least a visual media capture controller comprises means to selective store captured video in a video library. 
     
     
         40 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising said at least a touch sensor being at least a media capture controller, characterized in that, said at least a media capture controller comprises means to selective store captured music data in a music library. 
     
     
         41 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising at least a touch sensor being at least a media capture controller, characterized in that, said at least a visual media capture controller comprises at least a mechanism configured to end recording of said media and triggering or executing function of said at least a functional label after further identifying a further haptic contact engagement. 
     
     
         42 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising mechanism to recognize type of haptic engagement of said at least a functional label, said type of haptic engagement being selected from a group of haptic engagements consisting of a single discrete haptic engagement, a double discrete haptic engagement, a plurality of discrete haptic engagements, a continuous haptic engagement, a continuous pre-defined time haptic engagement, a gesture-defined haptic engagement, an orientation-defined haptic engagement, a swipe haptic engagement, a direction-defined swipe haptic engagement, an orientation-defined swipe haptic engagement, a gesture haptic engagement, a direction-defined gesture haptic engagement, an orientation-defined gesture haptic engagement, and other haptic engagements. 
     
     
         43 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising mechanism to recognize type of haptic engagement of said at least a functional label, said type of haptic engagement being selected from a group of haptic engagements consisting of a single discrete haptic engagement, a double discrete haptic engagement, a plurality of discrete haptic engagements, a continuous haptic engagement, a continuous pre-defined time haptic engagement, a gesture-defined haptic engagement, an orientation-defined haptic engagement, a swipe haptic engagement, a direction-defined swipe haptic engagement, an orientation-defined swipe haptic engagement, a gesture haptic engagement, a direction-defined gesture haptic engagement, an orientation-defined gesture haptic engagement, and other haptic engagements, characterized in that, said each function of said functional labels being defined in terms of type of haptic engagements. 
     
     
         44 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising at least a settings' mechanism configured to provide settings configurable by a user in order to invoke at least a visual media capturing mode based on said settings. 
     
     
         45 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising at least a settings' mechanism configured to provide settings configurable by a user in order to invoke at least an audio media capturing mode based on said settings. 
     
     
         46 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising at least a settings' mechanism configured to provide settings configurable by a user in order to invoke at least a multimedia media capturing mode based on said settings. 
     
     
         47 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising at least a settings' mechanism configured to provide settings configurable by a user in order to invoke at least a video preview mode based on said settings. 
     
     
         48 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising at least a paging mechanism configured to enable said at least a sender to page said at least a receiver correlating with said at least a functional label. 
     
     
         49 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising at least a paging mechanism configured to enable said at least a sender to page said at least a receiver correlating with said at least a functional label. 
     
     
         50 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising at least a storing mechanism configured to store said at least captured media upon identifying haptic contact engagement. 
     
     
         51 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising at least a processor configured to process instructions, said processor being communicably coupled to at least a wireless signal processor, at least a power control circuit, and at least a global positioning processor. 
     
     
         52 . An electronic device for selecting and sharing media in a single haptic engagement manner as claimed in  claim 27 , said device comprising at least a processor configured to process instructions, said processor being communicably coupled to one or more types of sensors, said sensors being selected from a group of sensors consisting of accelerometer sensor, gyroscope sensor, gesture Sensor, proximity sensor, direction sensor, orientation sensor, video sensor, multimedia sensor, touch sensor, audio sensor, location sensor, Bluetooth sensor, IR sensor, focus sensor, light sensor, and a global positioning sensor connected to the processor.