1. A method for at least one of processing and evaluating an Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)-related message on an apparatus for mobile telecommunication, the method comprising the steps of:
enabling the apparatus to accommodate an MMS user agent;
enabling the apparatus to accommodate at least one of one universal IC card (UICC) having a UMTS subscriber identity module (USIM) and at least one subscriber identity module (SIM) card, wherein the MMS-related message is one of terminal originated and terminal terminated; and
effecting the at least one of the processing and evaluating of the MMS-related message by at least one application toolkit residing on the at least one of the SIM card and the UICC, with the application toolkit being one of an SIM application toolkit (SAT) application and a USIM application toolkit (USAT) application, wherein the step of effecting further comprises controlling at least part of the MMS functionality on the apparatus by passing the MMS-related message to the SAT or USAT application before sending or receiving the message,
wherein the SAT or USAT application performs at least one of the steps of:
checking at least one of outgoing and incoming multimedia messages, MMS notifications, delivery reports and read-reply reports;
modifying the outgoing and incoming multimedia messages, delivery reports and read-reply reports;
deleting the multimedia messages, MMS notifications, delivery reports and read-reply reports;
initiating sending of the multimedia messages, MMS notifications, delivery reports and read-reply reports from the apparatus;
initiating downloading of the multimedia messages, MMS notifications, delivery reports and read-reply reports to the apparatus;
initiating storage of the multimedia messages, MMS notifications, delivery reports and read-reply reports on the respective SIM card and the UICC;
allowing and disallowing the sending of multimedia messages, delivery reports and read-reply report; and
initiating display of multimedia messages, MMS notifications, delivery reports and read-reply reports on the apparatus.
2. A method for at least one of processing and evaluating an MMS-related message as claimed in claim 1, wherein the MMS-related message is received by the apparatus from an MMS relayserver and passed on by the MMS user agent to the at least one application toolkit for the respective processing and evaluating of the MMS-related message, with MMS being used as a bearer service for the application toolkit.
3. A method for at least one of processing and evaluating an MMS-related message as claimed in claim 2, wherein the MMS user agent passes on the MMS-related message from the MMS relayserver to the application toolkit after positively checking whether MMS is used as a bearer service.
4. A method for at least one of processing and evaluating an MMS-related message as claimed in claim 2, wherein the MMS user agent sends a request to the MMS relayserver for immediate retrieval of the multimedia message when being informed by the application toolkit that MMS is used as a bearer service.
5. A method for at least one of processing and evaluating an MMS-related message as claimed in claim 2, wherein the application toolkit uses MMS as a bearer service for uploading data via the MMS user agent and the MMS relayserver to a network element.
6. A method for at least one of processing and evaluating an MMS-related message as claimed in claim 5, wherein the application toolkit passes a multimedia message with the data as content of the multimedia message to the MMS user agent and the multimedia message is submitted from the MMS user agent to the MMS relayserver.
7. A method for at least one of processing and evaluating an MMS-related message as claimed in claim 5, wherein the application toolkit passes the data to the MMS user agent together with a command for the MMS user agent to compose a multimedia message with the data as the content of the multimedia message and the multimedia message is submitted from the MMS user agent to the MMS relayserver.
8. A method for at least one of processing and evaluating an MMS-related message as claimed in claim 5, wherein the application toolkit requests status information about at least one of delivery and handling of the multimedia message to be retrieved from one of the MMS relayserver and the network elements.
9. A method for at least one of processing and evaluating an MMS-related message as claimed in claim 5, wherein at least one of the MMS user agent, the application toolkit and the network element identifies the MMS-related messages, for which MMS is used as a bearer service, by an information element in a header of the multimedia message.
10. A method for at least one of processing and evaluating an MMS-related message as claimed in claim 9 wherein a flag is used as the information element in the header.
11. An apparatus for processing a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)-related message on an apparatus for mobile telecommunication, the method comprising:
a MMS user agent;
a module, comprising at least one of one universal IC card (UICC) having a UMTS subscriber identity module (USIM), and at least one subscriber identity module (SIM) card, and
at least one application toolkit residing on the at least one of the SIM card and the UICC, with the application toolkit being one of an SIM application toolkit (SAT) application and a USIM application toolkit (USAT) application, wherein the at least one application toolkit controls at least part of the MMS functionality on the apparatus, and wherein the MMS-related message is transmitted to the SAT or USAT application before sending or receiving the message, and wherein the SAT or USAT application functions to execute at least one of the operations of:
checking at least one of outgoing and incoming MMS messages, including MMS notifications, delivery reports and read-reply reports related to the messages;
modifying the outgoing and incoming MMS messages, delivery reports and read-reply reports related to the messages;
deleting the MMS messages, MMS notifications, delivery reports and read-reply reports related to the messages;
initiating sending of the MMS messages, MMS notifications, delivery reports and read-reply reports related to the messages from the apparatus;
initiating downloading of the MMS messages, MMS notifications, delivery reports and read-reply reports related to the messages to the apparatus;
initiating storage of the MMS messages, MMS notifications, delivery reports and read-reply reports related to the messages on the respective SIM card and the UICC;
allowing and disallowing the sending of MMS messages, delivery reports and read-reply reports related to the messages; and
initiating display of MMS messages, MMS notifications, delivery reports and read-reply reports related to the messages on the apparatus.
12. The apparatus for processing a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)-related message on an apparatus for mobile telecommunication as claimed in claim 11, wherein the MMS-related message is received by the apparatus from an MMS relayserver and passed on by the MMS user agent to the at least one application toolkit for the respective processing and evaluating of the MMS-related message, with MMS being used as a bearer service for the application toolkit.
13. The apparatus for processing a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)-related message on an apparatus for mobile telecommunication as claimed in claim 12, wherein the MMS user agent passes on the MMS-related message from the MMS relayserver to the application toolkit after positively checking whether MMS is used as a bearer service.
14. The apparatus for processing a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)-related message on an apparatus for mobile telecommunication as claimed in claim 12, wherein the MMS user agent sends a request to the MMS relayserver for immediate retrieval of the multimedia message when being informed by the application toolkit that MMS is used as a bearer service.
15. The apparatus for processing a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)-related message on an apparatus for mobile telecommunication as claimed in claim 12, wherein the application toolkit uses MMS as a bearer service for uploading data via the MMS user agent and the MMS relayserver to a network element.
16. The apparatus for processing a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)-related message on an apparatus for mobile telecommunication as claimed in claim 15, wherein the application toolkit passes a multimedia message with the data as content of the multimedia message to the MMS user agent and the multimedia message is submitted from the MMS user agent to the MMS relayserver.
17. The apparatus for processing a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)-related message on an apparatus for mobile telecommunication as claimed in claim 15, wherein the application toolkit passes the data to the MMS user agent together with a command for the MMS user agent to compose a multimedia message with the data as the content of the multimedia message and the multimedia message is submitted from the MMS user agent to the MMS relayserver.
18. The apparatus for processing a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)-related message on an apparatus for mobile telecommunication as claimed in claim 15, wherein the application toolkit requests status information about at least one of delivery and handling of the multimedia message to be retrieved from one of the MMS relayserver and the network elements.
19. The apparatus for processing a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)-related message on an apparatus for mobile telecommunication as claimed in claim 15, wherein at least one of the MMS user agent, the application toolkit and the network element identifies the MMS-related messages, for which MMS is used as a bearer service, by an information element in a header of the multimedia message.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A signal processing apparatus comprising:
an image sensing device which has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements covered with a color filter;
a driver which drives said image sensing device in a first reading mode of separately reading signals from respective lines of photoelectric conversion elements and a second reading mode of reading all signals in one scan by adding signals generated by the lines of photoelectric conversion elements by at least two signals corresponding to the photoelectric conversion elements of a same color in every other line then outputting lines of the added signals, a color order of the added signals being the same as a color order of the signals before being added, in said second reading mode, a spatial distance between the barycenters of first and second lines, adjacent to each other, of the added signals being different from a spatial distance between barycenters of the second line and of a third line of the added signals that is adjacent to said second line;
a switch that switches between the first reading mode and the second reading mode; and
a correction unit that passes signals inputted from the image sensing device without correcting positions of barycenters of the inputted lines of signals when the first reading mode is set, and corrects positions of barycenters of the inputted lines of added signals so that the spatial distances between barycenters of the first to third lines becomes equal when the second reading mode is set.
2. The signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a signal processing unit that applies camera signal processes suitable for signals whose color order is the same as that of the color filter to the signals outputted from said correction unit.
3. The signal processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said color filter has a Bayer arrangement of the three primary colors.
4. The signal processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein, when letting signals in an even number line and signals in an odd number line subjected to the correction by said correction unit be P2n and P2n\u22121 (n is a natural number), respectively, and letting corrected signals in an even number line be P\u20322n and corrected signals in an odd number line be P\u20322n\u22121, said correction unit performs operations of:
P\u20322n=\u215b\xd7P2n\u22122+\u215e\xd7P2n and
P\u20322n\u22121=\u215e\xd7P2n\u22121+\u215b\xd7P2n+1.
5. An image sensing apparatus comprising:
an image sensing device;
a driving unit that drives said image sensing device; and
the image processing apparatus according to claim 1.
6. A signal processing method for processing an image signal outputted from an image sensing device which has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements covered with a color filter and which can be driven in a first reading method of separately reading signals from respective lines of photoelectric conversion elements and a second reading method of reading all signals in one scan by adding signals generated by the lines of photoelectric conversion elements by at least two signals corresponding to the photoelectric conversion elements of a same color in every other line then outputting lines of the added signals, a color order of the added signals being the same as a color order of the signals before being added, in said second reading method, a spatial distance between barycenters of first and second lines, adjacent to each other, of the added signals being different from a spatial distance between the barycenters of the second line and of a third line of the added signals that is adjacent to said second line, comprising:
determining which of the first reading method and the second reading method is set; and
correcting positions of the barycenters of the lines of signals inputted from the image sensing device so that the spatial distances between the barycenters of the first to third lines becomes equal when the second reading method is set.
7. The signal processing method according to claim 6, wherein said color filter has a Bayer arrangement of the three primary colors.
8. The signal processing method according to claim 7, wherein, when letting signals in an even number line and signals in an odd number line subjected to the correction by said correction unit be P2n and P2n\u2212(n is a natural number), respectively, and letting corrected signals in an even number line be P\u20322n and corrected signals in an odd number line be P\u20322n\u22121, operations of:
P\u20322n=\u215b\xd7P2n\u22122+\u215e\xd7P2n and
P\u20322n\u22121=\u215e\xd7P2n\u22121+\u215b\xd7P2n+1
are performed in said correcting.
9. The signal processing method according to claim 6, further comprising applying camera signal processes suitable for signals whose color order is the same as that of the color filter to the signals outputted from said correction unit.
10. A storage medium, readable by an information processing apparatus, storing a program including program codes capable of realizing the signal processing method according to claim 6, the program being executable by the information processing apparatus.