Image pickup device, image pickup device control method and image processing method
First Claim
1. An image pickup device comprising:
- an image pickup section which senses an optical image and converts said optical image into image information;
a recognition section which, if said optical image sensed by said image pickup section includes a medium displaying predefined information, recognizes said predefined information based on said image information obtained by said image pickup section;
a storage section which stores said predefined information recognized by said recognition section; and
a processing section which performs at least one of controlling image sensing by said image pickup section based on said predefined information, processing image information based on said predefined information, and making said predefined information correspond to associated image information.
3 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
When using a digital still camera to sense and capture an image of a medium with a bar code being recorded thereon for indication of information to be input to the digital still camera (such as information indicative of photographing conditions and/or information representing processing conditions of image processing), judgment is done to determine whether a region equivalent to the bar code is present within an image, and then a region equivalent to the bar code is extracted for analyzation of coded information as indicated by such bar code; if no contradiction is found in the coded information then let it be stored in a storage or “memory” region pursuant to the kind of such coded information. And the information thus stored will be used to perform setting of image pickup conditions and/or setup of image processing condition.
91 Citations
38 Claims
-
1. An image pickup device comprising:
-
an image pickup section which senses an optical image and converts said optical image into image information;
a recognition section which, if said optical image sensed by said image pickup section includes a medium displaying predefined information, recognizes said predefined information based on said image information obtained by said image pickup section;
a storage section which stores said predefined information recognized by said recognition section; and
a processing section which performs at least one of controlling image sensing by said image pickup section based on said predefined information, processing image information based on said predefined information, and making said predefined information correspond to associated image information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
-
-
19. An image pickup device control method comprising the steps of:
-
sensing, with an image pickup device provided with an image pickup section which senses an optical image and converts said optical image into image information, a medium displaying predefined information to be input to said image pickup device;
inputting said predefined information into said image pickup device by recognizing said predefined information based on said image information obtained by image sensing, and storing said predefined information at a storage section; and
performing at least one of controlling image sensing by said image pickup section based on said predefined information, processing image information based on said predefined information, and making said predefined information correspond to associated image information.
-
-
20. An image processing method comprising the steps of:
-
sensing, with an image pickup device provided with an image pickup section which senses an optical image and converts said optical image into image information, a medium displaying processing information which regulates processing content when image information is to be processed;
inputting said processing information into said image pickup device by recognizing said processing information based on said image information obtained by image sensing and storing said processing information at a storage section;
making said processing information correspond to specific image information; and
sending said specific image information corresponded to said processing information to an image processing device, such that said specific image information is processed by said image processing device with said processing content being regulated by said processing information.
-
-
21. An image pickup device comprising:
-
an image pickup section which senses an optical image and converts said optical image to image information;
a recognition section which, if said optical image sensed by said image pickup section includes a medium displaying layout information which defines a layout employable during image synthesis, recognizes said layout information based on said image information obtained by image sensing;
a storage section which stores said layout information recognized by said recognition section; and
a generator section which, when image information of an image to be synthesized in accordance with said layout defined by said layout information is one of designated and inputted, generates one of composite image information, which represents a composite image in which said image to be synthesized is synthesized in accordance with said layout, and instruction information, which is for generation of said composite image information. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
-
-
30. An image pickup device control method comprising the steps of:
-
sensing, with an image pickup device provided with an image pickup section which senses an optical image and converts said optical image into image information, a medium displaying layout information which defines a layout for use when an image is to be synthesized;
inputting said layout information into said image pickup device by recognizing said layout information based on said image information obtained by image sensing and storing said layout information at a storage section; and
generating, after image information of an image to be synthesized in accordance with said layout defined by said layout information has been one of designated and inputted, one of composite image information, which represents a composite image in which said image to be synthesized is synthesized in accordance with said layout, and instruction information, which is for generation of said composite image information.
-
-
31. An image pickup device comprising:
-
an image pickup section which senses an optical image and converts said optical image to image information;
a recognition section which, if said optical image sensed by said image pickup section includes a medium displaying predefined information in a visually recognizable first format, recognizes said predefined information based on said image information obtained by image sensing;
a storage section which stores said predefined information recognized by said recognition section; and
an adder section which, when an image represented by said image information is to be recorded on a recording material, adds said predefined information to said image information to provide information to be recorded on the same recording material in a second format which is different from said first format. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
-
-
38. An image processing method comprising the steps of:
-
sensing, with an image pickup device provided with an image pickup section which senses an optical image and converts said optical image to image information, an image of a medium displaying, in a visually recognizable first format, predefined information which is to be recorded onto the same recording material as an image represented by image information;
inputting said predefined information to said image pickup device by recognizing said predefined information based on said image information obtained by image sensing and storing said predefined information at a storage section;
adding, when said image represented by image information is to be recorded onto the recording material, said predefined information to said image information, to provide information to be recorded on said recording material in a second format which is different from said first format; and
recording said predefined information onto said recording material in said second format when said image represented by image information, to which said predefined information has been added, is recorded onto said recording material.
-
Specification