Image pick-up apparatus

• US 20050117044A1
• Filed: 11/24/2004
• Published: 06/02/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Suto, Kazutoshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,652,694 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/333.120
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00392 Other manual input means, e.g. digitisers or writing tablets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00427 using a menu list H04N1/00421, H04N1/00424, H04N1/00429 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3871 the composed originals being of different kinds, e.g. low- and high-resolution originals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3243 of type information, e.g. handwritten or text document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3277 The additional information being stored in the same storage device as the image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/262 Studio circuits, e.g. for mixing, switching-over, change of character of image, other special effects ; Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects

Abstract

An image pick-up apparatus loaded in a body of the apparatus with a monitor for displaying a captured image, comprising: an input device which inputs a character and an image to be combined with an image displayed on the monitor; a composition device which combines the character and the image input through the input device with the image displayed on the monitor, and generates a composite image; an instruction device which instructs a record of the composite image generated by the composition device; and a record control device which records a composite image generated by the composition device in accordance with an instruction of the instruction device in a record medium, and adds an identification symbol for identifying that the image recorded in the record medium is a composite image to a part of a file name, thereby recording data in the record medium.

Claims

1. An image pick-up apparatus loaded in a body of the apparatus with a monitor for displaying a captured image, comprising:

an input device which inputs a character and an image to be combined with an image displayed on the monitor;

a composition device which combines the character and the image input through the input device with the image displayed on the monitor, and generates a composite image;

an instruction device which instructs a record of the composite image generated by the composition device; and

a record control device which records a composite image generated by the composition device in accordance with an instruction of the instruction device in a record medium, and adds an identification symbol for identifying that the image recorded in the record medium is a composite image to a part of a file name, thereby recording data in the record medium.

2. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the record control device records data in the record medium by adding an identification symbol for identifying that the image recorded in the record medium is a composite image and an identification symbol for identification of an input destination of a combined character to a part of a file name.

3. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the input device is mounted on a screen of the monitor, and comprises a touch panel capable of accepting pen-input characters and images.

4. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a character data storage device which stores prescribed character data;

a character recognition device which recognizes a pen-input character from the touch panel based on character data stored in the character data storage device, wherein

the composition device combines a character of character data recognized by the character recognition device with an image displayed on the monitor.

5. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

prescribed character data stored in the character data storage device is numeric character data.

6. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

prescribed character data stored in the character data storage device is alphabetic character data.

7. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

prescribed character data stored in the character data storage device is kana-kanji character data.

8. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 4, wherein:

prescribed character data stored in the character data storage device is numeric, alphabetic, and kana-kanji character data; and

the apparatus further comprises a character type selection device which selects a character type recognized by the character recognition device.

9. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the character data storage device is attachable to and removable from the body of the apparatus.

10. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the input device comprises;

a composite data storage device which stores prescribed character and image data;

a display control device which reads a character and an image stored in the composite data storage device and displays the character and the image on the monitor; and

a selection device which selects a character and an image displayed on the monitor, wherein

the selection device selects and inputs the character and the image displayed on the monitor.

11. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the composite data storage device is attachable to and removable from the body of the apparatus.

12. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the input device is externally connected to the body of the apparatus.

13. An image pick-up apparatus, comprising:

a monitor for displaying a captured image,

an instruction device which instructs a change of a file name of an image displayed on the monitor;

an input device which inputs a file name of an image displayed on the monitor in accordance with an instruction of the instruction device; and

a file name rewrite device which rewrites all or a part of a file name of an image displayed on the monitor into a file name input by the input device in accordance with an instruction of the instruction device.

14. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 13, wherein

the input device comprises:

a touch panel which is mounted on a screen of the monitor, and is capable of accepting a pen-input character;

a character data storage device which stores prescribed character data; and

a character recognition device which recognizes a pen-input character from the touch panel based on character data stored in the character data storage device, wherein

the file name rewrite device rewrites all or a part of a file name of an image displayed on the monitor into a character recognized by the character recognition device.

15. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

prescribed character data stored in the character data storage device is numeric character data.

16. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

prescribed character data stored in the character data storage device is alphabetic character data.

17. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 16, wherein

prescribed character data stored in the character data storage device is kana-kanji character data.

18. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 14, wherein:

prescribed character data stored in the character data storage device is numeric, alphabetic, and kana-kanji character data; and

the apparatus further comprises a character type selection device which selects a character type recognized by the character recognition device.

19. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

the character data storage device is attachable to and removable from the body of the apparatus.

20. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 13, wherein

the input device is externally connected to the body of the apparatus.