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Questions and Answers

  1. What are the main features of ADnota album?

  2. Which mobile phones are compatible with ADnota album?

  3. What languages are supported?

  4. What is the license model of ADnota album?

  5. Where can I buy ADnota album ?

  6. What are the location search options?

  7. What data are used for position retrieval?

  8. Why does ADnota album use GPS data and Cell ID/LAC?

  9. Can the position data be exported or imported?

  10. How does Voice Search work?

  11. How can I improve the voice retrieval accuracy for a certain photo?

  12. Why does a voice search return a list instead of a single result?

  13. What is sequential search and search refining?

What are the main features of ADnota album?

  • Recording GPS position data and Cell ID/LAC when shooting photos
  • Attaching GPS position data to photos in multimedia messages. (MMS, e-mail, Bluetooth, IRD)
  • Retrieval of photos according to where they were taken
  • Adding voice tags to photos for voice retrieval
  • Voice retrieval
  • Date and text retrieval
  • Adjustment of zoom, exposure time, brightness and contrast while photos are taken (details depend on the phone model)
  • Display of metadata
  • Support of the Nokia 6260 screen flipping

Which mobile phones are compatible with ADnota album?

The Nokia 3650, 3660, 6260, 6600, 6630, 6670, 7610 and the Siemens SX 1. Other Symbian Series 60 plattform based camera phones may also be compatible.

What languages are supported?

The menus, help texts and manuals are currently available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The ADnota album voice retrieval function is independent of the spoken language.

What is the license model of ADnota album?

A 14 days free trial version can be downloaded from adnota. The trial version has the full functionality of the commercial version. To unlock the trial time lock, you have to buy a registration key. The registration key is tied to the unique IMEI of your phone. To get the IMEI of your phone, enter *#06#, or select Options/Register in the main menu of ADnota album.

Where can I buy ADnota album ?

ADnota album can be purchased through Nokia software sales channels. e.g. www.softwaremarket.nokia.com, www.handango.com, www.mobile2day.de. The registration key is usually delivered via e-mail within two business days.

What are the location search options?

The location search function allows you to search for pictures that were taken
  • close to your current position or
  • close to the position of the selected picture.
The result of a search is a list with the 100 closest pictures. Only pictures tagged with position data (GPS or Cell ID) are included in the list.

What data are used for position retrieval?

ADnota album uses two sources of position data:
  • GPS data and/or
  • Cell ID and LAC from the GSM network.
When taking a photo, both GPS and Cell ID/LAC data are stored automatically, provided they are available.

Why does ADnota album use GPS data and Cell ID/LAC?

GPS reception is not always available. Indoors, in adverse weather conditions or close to buildings or other obstacles the GPS signal may be to weak for proper decoding. The Cell ID and LAC are supplied by the mobile phone (GSM) network. They are available whenever to phone is logged into the network. However, location search using Cell ID and LAC have some drawbacks:
  • in a crowded area a cell covers usually a small area, in a rural area it may cover an area with a radius of more than 10 km,
  • in a given position, more than one network cell may be available. The assignment of a specific cell depends on many  factors, e.g. the network load. Worse, the network operator may change the ID assigned to a cell, or install additional cells. Finally, the cell ID depends on the network; each network uses its own cell IDs.
The sorting function used by ADnota album operates on GPS or Cell ID/LAC data. If both datasets are available, a proprietary algorithm merges the GPS and the network data.

Can the position data be exported or imported?

The GPS position data is imported and exported in picture files. When a photo is taken, the picture and the GPS data are stored automatically in the Exchangeable Image Format (EXIF). This format is also used for transmitting the picture (MMS, e-mail, IFR, Bluetooth, etc.) If an imported picture is coded in EXIF and the EXIF file includes GPS information, this GPS data will be used in location search operations. The network Cell ID/LAC data cannot be imported or exported. It is, however, listed in the metadata.

How does Voice Search work?

A picture can be tagged with up to 31 voice tags. To add a voice tag, select Options/Add keyword. When searching, ADnota album compares all the stored voice-tags (keywords) with the searched keyword. The search returns a list of pictures. The list is sorted, the picture with the best match is displayed in the upper left corner.

How can I improve the voice retrieval accuracy for a certain photo?

By recording voice-tags several times within a photo, its retrieval accuracy may be improved. Re-recording of voice-tags makes sense, because no word can be uttered in the exact same way, twice. What is more, in the presence of background noise, chances are that different parts of the words get corrupted. Thus, the presence of several variations of the same word increases the probability that for a given query a well matching instance of the sought voice-tag may be found.

Why does a voice search return a list instead of a single result?

There a several reasons for a list:
  • More than one photo may have the searched keyword attached.
  • Voice samples always include randomness: a word is never pronounced the same way twice, changing background noise disturbs the recognition. A handy way to cope with these conditions is to offer a sorted list of matches to the user.
  • Sequential search and search refining.

What is sequential search and search refining?

Search refining allows you to perform a new search in the result list of the previous search. The arrangement of the new result list is based on fuzzy logic. In the current version result lists are limited to 100 entries.

Sequential search allows you to concatenate searches. E.g. you can search a picture using a voice search. After this you may select a picture in the result list and return to the main view. The main view shows the pictures taken close to the date of the selected picture. Subsequently you may use a location search to find pictures taken close to the location of the selected picture.
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