Storing and retrieving multimedia data and associated annotation data in mobile telephone system

摘要

A mobile telephone system (1) is provided which allows users to store photographs taken by using their mobile telephone (31-1, 3-2), in a central storage and retrieval system (7). The mobile telephone allows the user to add an annotation to the photograph for use in retrieving the photograph at a later time. At the time of retrieval, the user inputs a text or spoken query into the mobile telephone which is transmitted to the central storage and retrieval system and is used to identify the image to be retrieved. The identified image is then transmitted back to the user's mobile telephone for further use.